Josh is the Journalist for the Today’s Group and writes many of the articles for Today’s Conveyancer. He graduated with a degree in Physics from Cardiff University in 2009 before training as a journalist.
He has previously written for The Times, The Mirror and The Daily Express.
Manchester based law firm Linder Myers have been bought by Metamorph Law, two years after they avoided administration. Linder Myers, who trade from Lytham St Annes, Chester and Shrewesbury as well as central Manchester will
The Law Society has become the latest in a long line of organisations to announce their opposition to George Osborne’s second attempt at privatising Land Registry. Previously, the Conveyancing Association, the Competition and Markets Authority
It’s been nearly two years in the making, but today we finally got to unwrap and show off the new look Today’s Conveyancer. It’s been all change since I started writing for the site back
The nominations for the Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards have been announced ahead of the award ceremony in Liverpool on 14th July. Awards include regional conveyancing firm of the year for the North of
The acceleration in technological developments is set to change conveyancing even more than it has over the last fifteen years, are the thoughts of Search Acumen’s Managing Director, Andrew Lloyd as he looks back on
Providing a great service through being easily contactable but also not just telling clients what they want to hear is one of the keys to success according to ESTAs winning firm Mander Cruikshank. Shani Box,
Mortgage Brain’s conveyancing service, ConveyancingBrain has been picked as one of the Mortgage Support Network’s preferred conveyancing technology solutions. Mortgage Brain say the system has a simple, one-step registration and login process and will offer
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers has written to the Legal Services Board for approval of it’s new public indemnity insurance plan. It follows the end of the consultation on the matter, with the CLC’s proposals
Two firms who illegitmately avoided more than £3 million in stamp duty each have been fined and rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Norfolk-based Hawkins Ryan avoided payment of at least £3,763,634.47 to HMRC on
The number of transactions in April plummetted by over 100,000 compared with March according to statistics released by HMRC. In total, HMRC say there were 70,690 residential transactions for over £40,000 in April, down from
The Competition and Markets Authority have raised concerns over the effects of a potential privatisation of Land Registry. Writing to the Department for Business and Skills’s Lizzie Dixon, the senior director at the CMA says
Solicitors regard regulation generally as poor value for money, according to a report by the Legal Services Board. The cost of regulation is also bundled up with other costs of doing business in the mind
Here are the latest scam alerts issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Fraudulent documents using the name “Williams Morgan” The SRA have been shown a copy of a document received by a memeber of the
According to newly released statistics, Land Registry completed 1,567,627 applications in April, 114,425 of which were transactions for value, up 14,000 from March. Land Registry say there were 725,585 applications to obtain a coopy of
Kris Clark, Head of Product at SearchFlow and has called on the conveyancing profession to make it’s voice heard and to lead the debate on privatisation of Land Registry. Kris has been working in searches
