A Focus On Regulatory Change And What It Means For The Legal Sector
The legal sector has faced a barrage of regulatory change in 2018 and 2019 with the added storm clouds of Brexit only increasing the pressures felt by the legal profession. Since the new price and service regulations came into effect on December 06, 2018, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have published their new updated standards […]
LEAP Legal Software Announces Major New Expansion Initiative Into The United States
LEAP Legal Software, the UK’s leading provider of cloud legal software and automated forms and precedents to small and medium sized law firms, has announced a major new expansion initiative into the United States. LEAP has more than 2,000 firms and 12,000 users using its software in the UK and Republic of Ireland. PCLaw | […]
SearchFlow Responds To Calls For Greater Reporting Of Suspicious Activities, As Part Of Crackdown On Money Laundering
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of search solutions and legal reports – is urging property lawyers to make Anti-Money Laundering searches an automatic step of the due diligence process, in a bid to help combat related risks in the property transaction process. Following an article in this weekend’s Daily Mail, which reported how the […]
Application Requisitions Rise In Opening Quarter Of 2019
The number of applications being returned to conveyancers by HM Land Registry (HMLR) is increasing with 14.75% of all applications made by the 500 companies sending the most applications to HMLR resulted in a request for information from the governmental department. Between April and December last year only 13.3% of applications resulted in a requisition […]
UK Construction Experiences Sharpest Decline Since March 2018
The UK construction sector experienced its sharpest decline in construction output since the storms of March 2018. According to the seasonally adjusted IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Total Activity Index for May, the index rating had slipped below 50 (no change point) for the third time in four months. Despite economists predicting that construction output would […]
NHS And Public Land Sales Shortchanging The UK’s Majority
Surplus NHS and public Government owned land is being sold in record numbers, yet the benefit to most middle and low income earners will be zero. According to the ‘Still No Homes For Nurses: How NHS Land Is Being Sold Off To Build Unaffordable Homes’ report, carried out by the New Economic Foundation (NEF), found […]
New Landlord Coalition Group Offers Alternative To Section 21 Abolition
A number of national associations representing the interests of UK Landlords have united in opposition of the proposed abolition of Section 21 repossessions by creating a ‘Fair Possessions Coalition’ and offering a viable alternative. The primary objective of the coalition is to overturn the decision to abolish Section 21 repossessions or delay the abolition until […]