Jen is the Senior Media Officer for Today’s Conveyancer, Today’s Wills & Probate and Today’s Family Lawyer.
Having gained a degree in Multimedia Computing, Jen fell into a content role after successfully applying for a job at Cheshire Police. During her 6-year service, she took on the role as personal Press Officer under the first Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire and worked in the busy press office for the force.
Jen has experience in the marketing and communication sphere, which stems from her time in the public sector, private care sector and now here at the Practical Vision Network, where she can utilise her skills and challenge herself further.
Solicitor firms could face enforcement by the profession’s regulator if they do not register their tax advice work under new anti-money-laundering (AML) obligations, the Law Society of England and Wales has cautioned. Earlier this month,
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO) proposed 19% budget increase is not justified and needs to be revisited, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has said in proposing the creation of an external task force to help
Law firms are gaining the equivalent of an extra 20 working days a year from employees putting in longer shifts when they work from home, according to new research from Atlas Cloud. The research reveals
There may be a welcome sigh of relief from those in the housing market as a date has now been set for the SDLT petition to be heard. It’s on Monday 1 February 2021 at
The Women in Residential Property network (WIRP) which aims to encourage collaboration and understanding between women working across the residential property industry raised over £1,000 for the charity, Ella’s at their last event of 2020.
The latest data for the HM Land Registry Transaction figures have been released. The Transaction Data indicates that in December, 1,431,694 applications were completed by Land Registry. For regional applications, the South East came top
With the release of draft guidance on anti-money laundering guidance on 20 January 2021, there has been a furry of conversation about what this means. Amy Bell from Teal Compliance, has shared her recent blog
Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder and Managing Director of Thirdfort has shared his insight into some of the errors firms can make when it comes to ensuring they remain compliant. The subject of compliance has been at
Andy Bord, Flood Re’s Chief Executive, has today given oral evidence to an eminent House of Lords Select Committee which has been appointed to consider risk assessment and risk planning in the context of disruptive
A new year, often means a new start, and here at Today’s Conveyancer, we wanted to share with you the good news we’ve had within in the industry of professionals joining firms and those who
Latest figures released by HMRC has revealed that property transactions are unsurprisingly higher as a result of the pent up demand the market was experiencing. The headline figures released by HMRC show that the provisional
Labour MP Catherine McKinnell has expressed her disappointment that government won’t debate the many online petitions that have reached the threshold, including the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) extension petition which has received over 118,000
The Legal Sector Affinity Group (LSAG), which includes all UK legal sector professional bodies and supervisors, has completed an extensive revision and redraft of its anti-money laundering (AML) guidance. This replaces previous versions of the
Greater adoption of the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) will deliver substantial benefits to UK society. On 12 January, a cohort of the most prominent bodies in the UK’s Residential Property Sector (RPS) sent an
Recent figures suggest that first-time buyers (FTBs) are no longer as reliant on financial gifts from family members, usually parents, commonly known as the Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD). Data from the English Housing
It has been reported that Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons has temporarily suspended debates in Westminster Hall, meaning MPs may not get a chance to debate an extension to the stamp duty
While a ‘deal has been done’, Brexit and its implications for the UK remain a hot topic. However, one area that seems to have remained impervious to any Brexit related decline is the UK housing
With coronavirus deaths and hospital admissions surging to record highs, the UK property market slowed as despite progress with the vaccination programme people once again adapted to the grim situation and acclimatised to life under
Continuing with our compliance theme, Matthew Locker, a Cyber Security Consultant at Apstorm has shared his ideas on how law firms can remain compliant in the modern world. In today’s digital society, passwords have become
Housing market activity in the first few weeks of January often sets the tone for the whole year, though the 2021 outlook is somewhat muddied by the challenges of the pandemic and by the 31st
Figures released by the property portal Rightmove have shown an almost 10% increase in the number of agreed house sales collapsing between July and December 2020. Some professionals in the sector are predicting that these
The Northern Research Group (NRG) – backed by over 50 Conservative MPs have written a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, making a number of demands, including the extension of the stamp duty land tax (SDLT)
Continuing with our compliance theme, Matthew Locker, a Cyber Security Consultant at Apstorm has shared his ideas on how law firms can remain compliant in the modern world. The legal sector is rich in sensitive
The government is under mounting pressure to implement tighter restrictions to stem the transmission of the coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday, the daily figures around the pandemic revealed that over 1,500 people had sadly lost their lives.
Calls are being made to the government imploring them to extend the Help to Buy Scheme as it’s feared many first-time buyers (FTBs) will miss out, as their dream homes haven’t been built due to
Solicitors in England and Wales have voted overwhelmingly to introduce term limits and constituency reforms for the governing council of their membership body, the Law Society of England and Wales. At last year’s annual general
Covid restrictions create a lottery for homebuyers Three very prominent conveyancing organisations have approached the Chancellor seeking an urgent extension to the SDLT holiday. The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC), the Conveyancing Association (CA) and
The figures from the first week of mortgage market trading in 2021 have been released by Twenty7Tec, a leading mortgage technology platform. Phil Bailey, Sales Director at the mortgage technology company explains: “We ran the
Stamp Out The Duty is a campaign launched today, Wednesday 13 January 2021, by The Daily Telegraph, and calls for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The newspaper says its campaign is: “inspired because
HMRC has issued a record £23.8m worth of fines for organisations breaching and or ignoring money laundering regulations. Nick Sharp, Deputy Director of Economic Crime, Fraud Investigation Service at HMRC said: “Businesses who fail to
The former Chairman of the CCUA who has over three decades of experience in both Legal and Enforcement sectors, Amir Ali, has become the inaugural President of the Professional Paralegal Register (PPR), a not-for-profit organisation
As we’re all starting to adapt to the new lockdown restrictions, we’re facing new blockers that may not have been apparent during the first national lockdown. Conveyancers are already under mounting pressure as clients demand