Toni is the Media Officer for Today’s Conveyancer, Today’s Wills & Probate and Today’s Family Lawyer.
I worked for a law firm for 16 years, during my time at the firm I worked as a company commercial legal secretary for 7 years but changed careers and moved into marketing for the remaining 9 years – where I covered all aspects of marketing.
While in the marketing role, I achieved a CIM Professional Certificate in Marketing and CAM Diploma in Digital Marketing.
There has been an update published in the following practice guide: First registrations (PG1) Guidance for conveyancers on how to register unregistered estates in land for the first time (practice guide 1). Page Summary :
HM Land Registry (HMLR) have enhanced their portal so conveyancers can quickly see estimated completion dates for their applications. Their latest portal enhancement, ‘Estimated Completion Date’, is now available within ‘View My Applications’. Estimated Completion
HM Land Registry’s digital Local Land Charges Register continues to grow, enabling the digital transformation of homebuying with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council now joining Land Registry’s Local Land Charges Register. Borough council is the latest
Market Data from HM Land Registry and HMRC show a promising buoyant property market. The latest UK monthly property transactions data from HMRC shows the biggest April for property sales since the financial crisis in
A Surrey law firm has admitted liability to property negligence and is ordered to pay more than £800,000. The error resulted in the firm paying damages for negligence after omitting to inform their client, who
A think tank is calling on the Government to scrap the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) altogether and replace with a new levy. The chancellor Rishi Sunak is once again being urged to get rid
With a surge in remote working following the pandemic, the landscape of office life has now drastically changed and the way people utilise offices is undergoing the biggest transformation in generations, resulting in a growth
Conveyancing job advertisements continue to rise since Today’s Conveyancer started tracking them in the summer of 2020. The stamp duty holiday, the government’s new mortgage scheme and overall impact of the pandemic, continues to change
There has been update published in the following practice guide: First registrations (PG1) Guidance for conveyancers on how to register unregistered estates in land for the first time (practice guide 1). This guide deals with
Stratford-on-Avon looks forward to more efficient property market thanks to digital register after the council joins lengthening list of local authorities transferring their local land charges data to HM Land Registry. Anyone requiring local land
Convey Law has appointed two new Directors, making it one of the few UK companies and Legal Practices to have a female-majority Board of Directors. Kathryn Jones and Sophia Ramzan have been appointed Directors of
Owen Davies, Searches Business Development Manager at Severn Trent Services and a Director of DWSN, has been appointed to Chair of DWSN as of 1st April 2021. Owen replaces Kevin Brown, former DWSN Chair and
OneDome’s new homebuying platform is to cut average transaction time of 20 weeks in half once it is launched. The homebuying platform set up by a challenger portal, OneDome, expects transaction times to be cut
HM Land Registry are calling on conveyancers and other stakeholders involved in property transactions to join together to help shape the future of Business Gateway. The Land Registry has launched a new Business Gateway community
The Conveyancing Information Executive (CIE) has announced that four notable property and land data-led businesses have become Industry Partners of the trade body organisation: Ambiental; Barbour ABI; Glenigan; and JBA Risk Management. • Ambiental is
Mortgage lending has skyrocketed to the point of being the strongest since Bank of England records began. With the Government’s 95% mortgage scheme coupled with stamp duty land tax holiday, mortgage lending is soaring and
The Government has launched a Commonhold Council of leading industry figures who will inform the government on the future of this type of homeownership. The Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has revealed that many industry expert
Small and medium sized law firms saw a strong first quarter in 2021, with around half seeing an increase in the number of new matters, chargeable hours recorded and fees billed, the Law Society of
Law firms that generate high numbers of complaints compared to their size should bear a greater burden of paying the costs of the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has proposed. In
Money is to be paid to councils across the UK to motivate them to transfer their land charge data to the central Digital Local Land Charges (LLC) Register quicker. It has been revealed by the
