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Conveyancing Month!

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The UK’s first monthly on-line journal dedicated to conveyancers!

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Delivering Certainty in an Uncertain World...

Text Box: The broken agreement and the broken leg, the new house or the new business – whenever the certainties of everyday living are shattered or threatened, we turn to solicitors for help and guidance. Indeed, it is the very nature of what solicitors are paid to do that makes the profession so conservative and resistant to change.

E-Security!

IT Columnist, Rupert Kendrick, highlights some key security issues as the curtain rises on

e-conveyancing

Text Box: E-conveyancing is most at risk from external sources, but there are also threats from internal sources. Hackers manipulate and change passwords to gain entry to systems. Viruses distort, modify, corrupt or even remove data stored electronically.

A million ‘asset-rich income-poor’

pensioners need

advice

Text Box: As the gap between pension need and pension provision continues to grow, this trend is bound to gather pace, and solicitors will need to be able to offer - and get paid for - good quality advice. This view has been re - enforced by a new report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which points out that there are nearly a million ‘asset-rich income-poor’ pensioners - who have more than £100,000 of equity in their homes, but are on means-tested benefits. Furthermore, half of retired people living on less than £128 a week (the official definition of poverty) have three or more spare rooms.

Time To Join In!

Text Box: As most practitioners will know, Land registry’s e-conveyancing roll out will be subject to vigorous testing before being made mandatory by or about 2010. The pilot, which is now scheduled to be under way by the Autumn, will take place in Portsmouth, Fareham and Bristol, and all firms in those areas are welcome to participate. According to Land Registry spokesperson Marion Shelley “The E-conveyancing task force were keen to select areas for testing the chain matrix prototype where the likelihood of completing chains was high.

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The HIPs and

E-conveyancing War!