Legal Services Consumer Panel Castigate ICAEW’s Voluntary Compliance Decision
Following The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) announcement that they will not enforce price transparency rules onto its firms that provide probate services, The Legal Services Consumer Panel have released a statement castigating the decision. Instead, the ICAEW have said that price transparency will remain voluntary to its 280 regulated probate […]
Right To Manage Companies And Consents
RIGHT TO MANAGE COMPANIES AND CONSENTS REINER V TRIPLARK LTD [2018] EWCA Civ 2151 A recent Court of Appeal case reminds us that when buying a flat where a Right to Manage (RTM) company is in place, the procedure to be followed may well be different from that normally expected. RTM companies are usually set […]
SRA and CLC to speak at Legal Eye conference
Legal Eye’s conference in Birmingham next month will feature presentations from both the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC). Risk and compliance advisers Legal Eye have put together a packed programme of talks, panel discussions and breakout sessions to help risk and compliance professionals, COLPs, COFAs, senior and managing partners, […]
SRA Release Waiver Register Information
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have released its register of waivers which allows certain exemptions for specific rules that do not apply to individual firms. The ‘safe space’ and register of waivers system was launched in the hope of reducing the restrictions on business, thus enabling many firms to operate with more freedom that will […]
HMLR Expand Digitisation And Blockchain Property Sales Enter Europe
The HM Land Registry (HMLR) have continued their relentless task of transferring all local authority data onto a digital system. The City of London Corporation is now live, and all property requests will go through HMLR as opposed to the local authority from now on. This is now the third local authority to have successfully […]