Industry leaders from HM Land Registry, Bold Legal Group, TM Group, Taylor Rose and Auxilio will discuss the future of conveyancing in a webinar on Monday 8 December, in a session chaired by Rob Hailstone.
The discussion will address how firms can prepare for upcoming digital transformation, manage risk, and enhance operational performance, and explore the technological, regulatory and operational changes shaping conveyancing practice.
The online event has been designed to provide practical insight for senior professionals responsible for strategic management, process improvement and compliance within their firms.
Roger Holdom (HM Land Registry), Joanna King (TM Group), Simon Black (Taylor Rose MW) and Adil Hamid (Auxilio) will discuss topics including digital transformation at HM Land Registry, adapting to mandatory digital checks, the role of outsourcing in capacity and quality management, safeguarding standards and compliance, and how to measure improvement.
The event aims to provide a balanced, practical discussion for firms navigating increased scrutiny over post-completion accuracy, efficiency and compliance. With mandatory digital validation checks due by 2026, and growing expectations around transparency and service delivery, the webinar offers senior conveyancing professionals a clear view of both the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Rob Hailstone said:
“Digital change is reshaping the conveyancing process from start to finish. This discussion brings together expertise from HM Land Registry, technology providers, and leading firms to help conveyancers understand what is coming and how to adapt effectively.”
Part 1 of the two-part session will be available online on 8th December and Part 2 will be available 15th December. To register interest, email info@auxiliouk.com.
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A firm that employs a Solicitor that has been struck off…..
Now allowed to be practicing conveyancing in a fashion that caused one of my clients to lose thousands of pounds and suffer a near mental breakdown.
Discussing the future of conveyancing.
Nice.
The webinar on the future of conveyancing comes just days after it was reported elsewhere that a private digital pack provider, Moverly has won a £50,000 government data prize. That raises a fair question: is the consultation genuinely open, or are we already seeing a preferred model being advanced before the profession has had its say?
Digital property packs are technically feasible. The real issue is who controls the nation’s most sensitive data, and who carries liability when that data is wrong. Conveyancing is a legal risk‑assessment discipline, not a data‑retrieval exercise. No platform can turn imperfect datasets into certainty, and disclaimers do not protect consumers.
With financial, data and technology stakeholders placed at the centre of the new ‘Open Property Coalition’ – and conveyancers positioned at the margins – the risk is clear: reform shaped by commercial incentives rather than legal realities. We have seen this pattern before with HIPs, and the consequences were costly.
Innovation is welcome, but innovation must follow consultation, not pre‑empt it.
This is a call to arms: property practitioners must defend their central role in reform, ensuring consumer protection and legal integrity remain at the heart of the system.
This is so obviously part of the digital ID agenda and it’s extremely disappointing to see some conveyancers “collaborating” with the government’s sinister plans for total control . They will deny it of course, but just as the events that took place from early 2020 are now being brought to light as being wholesale lies, so will this exercise prove to be the same, that is, using yet another Trojan horse to enable the government to have draconian inhuman control over its citizens. Anyone with a shred of integrity and humanity should oppose these developments if they have any sense of knowing why they became a lawyer.
As usual the government and people purporting to represent conveyancers are barking up the wrong tree. Has no one realised that the issues are caused by referral fees and underlying legal issues? (With clients who cannot wait for legal issues to be resolved so will look the other way?). Government needs to sort out developers, management companies et al (including local authorities and housing associations) who continue to concoct service charges and pass on bills to home owners regardless of tenure.
You can “digitise” all you want. Delays will continue because the govt look for the “easy” win and refuse to face the truth that large swathes of the UK are now indirectly controlled by the developers and their lackeys. Yet conveyancers have not widened up to tactics and simply think that it’s acceptable for home owners to pay extra on top of council tax. I thought we had a “cost of living” crisis?
I agree with Stephen’s analysis – but we need to take this a step further. The question isn’t only whether digital packs are being pushed ahead of the consultation; the deeper concern is that the wrong actors are being positioned to shape the future of conveyancing.
Rob Hailstone notes that this webinar brings together “HM Land Registry, technology providers, and leading firms to help conveyancers understand what is coming.” The term leading firms implies legal firms are central to the discussion – yet the speakers appear to come predominantly from commercial tech and service companies, not practising conveyancers.
For clarity, could Rob confirm which “leading firms” he is referring to?
If the panel is primarily technology and outsourcing providers, then we must ask the obvious next question:
At what stage are practising conveyancers – the professionals who actually carry the legal risk – being brought into the design of these reforms?
Digitisation itself isn’t the problem; digitisation without legal governance is. You can digitise every form in the country, but if service-charge regimes remain opaque, developers retain disproportionate power, management companies continue generating unchallengeable costs, and referral-fee incentives distort consumer choice, then all we get is faster bottlenecks. Not fairness. Not certainty. And certainly not protection for the public.
Conveyancing is, and always will be, a legal risk-assessment discipline. No digital platform can convert imperfect datasets into legal certainty, and disclaimers do not protect consumers when things go wrong. When financial, data and technology stakeholders are placed at the centre – while lawyers sit on the margins – reform becomes shaped by commercial convenience rather than legal reality.
Innovation is welcome.
But innovation must follow consultation, not pre-empt it.
If conveyancers do not assert their role now, governance, liability and data control will drift out of the profession – and once lost, they will be incredibly difficult to reclaim.
Sometimes I feel so sad when I think about the state of conveyancing today and who is purporting to represent Conveyancers. I wonder what ‘expertise’ is being referred to? I thought we were a profession not an industry. And who have we got sitting around the table? An outsourcing company who is neither regulated by the CLC or the SRA, a failed HIPs provider, a large consultancy firm who employs unqualified sub consultants to deliver their conveyancing services and the Land Registry. Is this really the best group of people that could be rounded up to discuss Conveyancing? Are these really leaders in this profession?