Writing a mental health policy
Shoosmiths has helped produce the Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) and Royal Collage of Psychiatrists (RCP) briefing note on best practice for processing...
The benefits of outsourcing legal title
What is legal title and how can outsourcing it lighten the regulatory load for mortgage book investors? Andy Wiggans, managing director of Specialist Mortgage...
Nationwide renews conveyancing deal with...
LMS has renewed its contract with Nationwide to be the sole supplier of fees free remortgage and transactional conveyancing services until July 2016.
Financial stability a worry for conveyancers
Conveyancers have outlined concerns about financial stability in new research published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Law firm launches High Court enforcement...
Leamington Spa based Wright Hassall says it is the first law firm to offer a full debt recovery package.
Whose data is it anyway?
Alison Deighton, head of Data Protection & Privacy at national law firm TLT considers the increasing frequency of borrowers using the Data Protection Act...
Making residential properties tradable –...
In the last of three articles, Jonathan Stokes and Simon Whitwham, directors at Fasttrac Solicitors, finalise the blueprint for making residential property...
Solicitors vote for compulsory separate representation...
Solicitors in Scotland have voted in favour of changing the current practice whereby a solicitor can act for both buyer and mortgage lender in property...
Are interest-only claims on the cards?
Mis-sold interest-only mortgages – are mass consumer claims on the way? Philip Robinson, lead litigation partner at Optima Legal and Steven Woolf, Barrister...
Making residential properties tradable -...
In the second of three articles, Jonathan Stokes and Simon Whitwham, directors at Fasttrac Solicitors, discuss the trading of residential properties