Merger creates UK’s largest debt recovery...
Specialist debt recovery law firms, Drydens Lawyers and Fairfax Solicitors, are to merge creating the UK’s largest firm of its type.
Lenders urged to embrace the Search Code
The Council of Property Search Organisations (CoPSO) and the Property Codes Compliance Board (PCCB) have launched a campaign aimed at the lending community,...
SLC launches consultation for its lender...
Following an initial preview of its lender panel proposition - SLC Quality Assured - back in November 2011, the Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC)...
Precise Mortgages launches joint legal representation...
The bridging market traditionally insists on separate legal representation for the borrower and lender but Precise Mortgages will now allow borrowers to...
LEGAL VIEW: Conveyancing. A year of revolution?
By Anthony Ruane, senior property partner at Optima Legal
A legal take on... Pragmatic developments...
By David Bailey, partner and head of services to lenders group at SGH Martineau LLP
Legal casebook: Negligent valuations
Marianne Jarvis, partner in the dispute resolution department at Moore & Blatch Solicitors, reports on the Paratus v Countrywide negligent valuation case,...
Mortgage Market Review webinar – hosted...
Mortgage Finance Gazette will be hosting a free Mortgage Market Review webinar in association with Optima Legal on 29 February from 10.30-11am.
The Law Society takes action against HSBC’s...
The Law Society has written to its members concerning “the detriment that is being caused by HSBC’s high handed and arrogant decision” to only use...
Backlash by solicitors against HSBC’s new...
The recent launch of HSBC's conveyancing panel, whereby borrowers must use a conveyancer on the bank's panel or pay twice for conveyancing services, is...