Solicitors stress
UK - More and more solicitors are speaking out against their colleagues who effectively 'bribe' estate agents to give them conveyancing work by paying them referral fees.
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The Torrens system
Kirthimala Gunasekera writes that the ultimate success of the registration system depends on the professionalism and ethics of the conveyancing professionals.
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Home reports work
Home reports have not hindered the Scottish housing market, Scotland's chartered surveyors have claimed.
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Improving conveyancing
The Law Society of England has published a consultation paper seeking the views of solicitors on how the conveyancing process can be improved.
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Lands
The Lands department in the Ministry of Lands in Kenya is a big wheel in the country's economic activity.
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Land Law in England and Wales - 2
Paul Omar of Gray's Inn writes extensively about the challenges of modernisation.
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EU Conveyancing
The European Commission has published a study by independent consultants on the EU conveyancing services market.
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Are you being served?
UK - an adviser is thoroughly dissatisfied with the quality of "free" conveyancing services.
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Solicitors rail
London - solicitors railed against Tesco for having 'outrageous' and 'misleading' content on its website.
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Lawyers woo banks
The Botswana Law Society is battling with the thorny issue of the allocation of conveyancing work.
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Sum of small fears
Small legal firms in England have recently revealed their fears in a survey conducted in October.
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PIMS
The Bahamas is to get a computerised Parcel Information Management System (PIMS).
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Conveyancing confidential
A "law-talking guy" blogs about the good, the bad and the dangerously incompetent.
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Home fees to fall?
 New Zealand now has licensed conveyancers.
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Registration in the Bahamas
Clement Chigbo gives an overview of the registration of title to land in the Bahamas.
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Why property matters
The Law Society of Scotland will be holding an annual conference. This year, the conference looks at "Why property matters to Scottish legal profession".
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Boundary dispute nightmare
The Barnes have had a dispute over the boundaries of a house they have lived in since 1972.
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Nice little earner
With the Law Society of England and Wales set to review the relaxation of the rules for referral fees, the issue is as contentious as ever.
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Office of Fair Trading
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate the way property searches are conducted in England after rececieving complaints from property search companies.
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Reveal perks
Australian mortgage brokers have been ordered to reveal perks - but only if asked to do so.
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Postal ballot on referrals
In July, at the Law Society of England and Wales' annual general meeting, it was decided to hold a postal ballot of the whole profession on the issue of referral fees.
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Reserve Bank of India
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to take precautions in nine key areas to reduce the incidence of fraud in housing finance.
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Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill
The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) has welcomed Justice & Electoral Select Committee's report on the Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill.
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Madonna's Scottish conveyancer
 Says lawyer Lorne Cousin, "It is so exciting when you're waiting to go on and you can hear 20,000 people screaming. It certainly beats rural conveyancing."
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Lawyers network ... making connections
The Lawyer Business and Property Network is a new Internet-based initiative recently launched in British Columbia, Canada.
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Property Pioneer shuts
The Law Gazette reports that one of the two original solicitors property centres from the 1980s has closed.
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Race winner
 The House of Lords has resolved an acrimonious 12-year court battle in the 'race to register' property deeds.
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CML Handbook
The Council of Mortgage Lenders' (CML) Handbook is a handbook which gives comprehensive instructions to solicitors and licensed conveyancers acting on behalf of lenders in conveyancing transactions.
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Commercial conveyancing indemnity claims increase
According to the LawGazette a sharp rise in commercial conveyancing negligence claims over the past year has seen them catch up with domestic conveyancing as the principal cause of indemnity notifications.
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Secretarial structures
Law firms can make huge savings by reorganising their secretarial structures, promoting team leaders and using digital dictation, according to the LawGazette.
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Residential property market
Overview - Residential Property Market by Allan Carton in Practical Solutions in which he discusses the English residential market with respect to the conveyancing profession.
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Licensed conveyancers in New Zealand
Lawyers in New Zealand will lose their exclusive right to provide conveyancing services to the public if the Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill is passed.
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Going it alone
In Going it alone in the Law Gazette, Jeremy Fleming looks at the increasing pressures sole practitioners in England face following plans by the Law Society to relax practice rule 4, thereby allowing employed solicitors to offer their services to the public.
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Attorney owned estate agencies?
 In a recent article entitled Home (a)loan in the April 2003 edition of De Rebus, Roger Green wrote about the ethical dilemma facing attorneys paying financial inducements to estate agents and mortgage originators. With this in mind, it may be a good idea for lawyers to consider selling property.
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Speed up roll-out
Speakers at the April meeting of the English Society for Computers and Law, requested that the Government's roll-out of electronic conveyancing be accelerated. They said that the sooner it is totally operational, the greater the benefits will be for both law firms and clients.
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Buyer Beware: Over the internet
 In Shattuck v. Klotzbach, Civ. Act. No. 01-1109A (Superior Ct., Mass., December 11, 2001), the court had to decide whether the exchange of e-mails between parties was sufficient to give rise to a contract of sale.
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De-regulation of conveyancing - Australia
 This article looks at the effect competition has had on conveyancing fees in New South Wales since the market began progressive de-regulation in the early 1990s.
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Innovative insurance
Kirthimala Gunasekera writes about Sri Lanka's innovative conveyancing methods, insurance schemes and guarantee funds.
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A tighter rein
Roger Tan comments on a recent Malaysian ruling which makes it more difficult for thieves and conmen to fraudulently transfer land.
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Radical change
England - Conveyancers must enact 'radical' change to survive, says Chancery Lane.
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Land fraud
A workshop is to be held in Kaula Lumpur on "Reducing the Risks of Land Fraud". K.S. Gunasekera highlights the conveyancing aspect.
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Mortgage fraud
Criminals will try to exploit the professional services offered by solicitors to enable them to engage in mortgage fraud.
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Land Law in England and Wales - 1
Paul Omar of Gray's Inn writes extensively about the challenges of modernisation.
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Property crisis
Ireland - the recent shutting down of two conveyancing practices could force an overhaul of conveyancing procedures.
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Negligence and conveyancing
More than a quarter of negligence claims against solicitors relate to conveyancing.
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Take advantage
London - intermediaries have failed to recommend conveyancing services to their clients.
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Not set in stone
Conveyancing has changed a lot in Scotland in the last few years.
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New Zealand property law bill
The bill intends to clarify, simplify, streamline and make property transactions more transparent.
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Property transfers open up
Australians in the state of Victoria will no longer be forced to use solicitors for conveyancing work.
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Huge conveyancing
Countrywide Property Lawyers is Europe's largest conveyancing operation with over 10 000 active cases.
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Test case
Lawyer-conveyancers are attempting to restore their conveyancing monopoly in Victoria Australia.
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Solicitors must adapt
The Law Society Council has adopted a new e-strategy amid warnings that solicitors' firms that fail to adapt to developments in IT could find themselves out of business within two or three years.
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Qld solicitors outsource
Queensland solicitors are increasingly starting to outsource their conveyancing writes Tim O'Dwyer.
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Scrapping of tariffs
The governing body of Scotland's 8000 solicitors is to scrap its tariff of recommended charges.
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You cannot take it with you?
... Just watch me as I remove fixtures and fittings after I have sold my house.
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Devil is in referral fees detail
Harry Kanter, who has been in private practice for more than 50 years, doubts that payments to third parties will improve service to clients.
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UK solicitors vote to ban referral fees
Last week solicitors voted three to one in favour of reinstating the ban on referral fees.
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Ownership in limbo
Someone discovers he has the title deeds for the land around his parents' semi-detached bungalow, but none for the property.
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Conveyancing: the psychic link
Are the British really obsessed with property? Maybe so, but they seem to be a little bit vague about the finer details of house-buying...
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I thought the garden was mine
The estate agent's details said first-floor flat with a garden. But, after moving in, first-time buyer Rob Noble was shocked to discover the garden belonged to someone else.
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Dodgy property deals
Scams abound; here is one from Australia.
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Referral fees allowed
Late last year the Law Society of England and Wales voted in favour of allowing solicitors to pay introduction and referral fees.
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Top of the indemnity tables
Again conveyancing solicitors were responsible for the largest proportion of professional indemnity claims.
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Crooked House
 A couple whose dream house had been the scene of a gruesome murder have failed in a bid to win compensation.
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Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill
The proposed Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill in New Zealand is not real reform, according to an article on Scoop.
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The skill factor
A letter in the LawGazette ends off with the words: "It is about time everyone remembered that conveyancing requires skill and detailed legal knowledge, and stopped trying to give the impression that it is no more complicated than selling a packet of crisps."
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Careless pruning costs lives
Neighbours' feuds should provide enough material to keep writers of farce busy. At the moment some 10 000 hedge feuds are being waged in England; yes, 10 000.
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Singapore abolishes conveyancing scale fees
 Following the recommendations by a Conveyancing Fees Review Committee, conveyancing fees in Singapore became totally liberalised on the 1st February this year, allowing lawyers to freely negotiate them. Yet...
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House of horrors
 Since conveyancing generates much work it is not surprising that this area of the law bears the brunt of negligence claims against solicitors. As Chris Baker explains in an article in the Law Gazette entitled Inside the house of horrors, using some simple risk management procedures can reduce these claims.
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Law puts heat on agents
The state parliament of Victoria in Australia is proposing a law to fine estate agents who repeatedly underquote and overquote property prices, by up to A$20 000.
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The Conveyancing Room
 The launch of The Conveyancing Room in England at the end of March, means that all parties to a transaction (solicitors, clients, estate agents, mortgagees and other parties) can communicate in a secure, online environment.
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Gazumping and Gazundering
Here we examine the problems caused in England and Wales where buyers and sellers are able to withdraw from an agreement - up until the last minute.
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Irish Homebuyers/Sellers to gain
Irish homebuyers and sellers are expected to save millions of euro in legal fees as a result of a price war in the legal profession.
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Contaminated land: UK Legislation
A short, useful discussion of contaminated land - given the growing awareness of environmental liability.
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Legalmart-online
Last year, Legalmart launched an innovative online conveyancing service in New South Wales - the largest property market in Australia.
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