When it comes to leasehold conveyancing in the UK, your conveyancing solicitor will inevitably encounter Part 2 (P2) of the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook. Tucked away in these instructions is a single, heavily loaded sentence:
“Ground Rent must
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers is under fire again, this time from the panel that’s supposed to represent consumers within legal services regulation.
A year after BBC Panorama caught Connells managers pushing buyers toward preferred conveyancers regardless of quality, the
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HM Land Registry made headlines a few days ago with the welcome announcement that fully avoidable requisitions are down 7%. Progress to be celebrated, surely, in a sector that has long grappled with the cost and delay that unnecessary requisitions
When the King’s Speech was delivered last Wednesday, many AML experts and legal compliance officers scanned the text and sighed. On the face of it there was no explicit mention of the long-promised, highly controversial overhaul of AML supervision. Many
The regulatory ground is shifting beneath law firms’ feet. Conveyancing transactions are growing more complex, data volumes are expanding at pace, and the methods used by modern criminals, from deepfakes to layered shell structures, are becoming increasingly difficult to detect
AML compliance has moved firmly to the front of the agenda for UK law firms. With the Solicitors Regulation Authority taking a more assertive stance and the courts broadening the scope of what constitutes money laundering an independent AML audit
For the last few years, the SRA’s annual AML data collection has been treated by many firms as a compliance formality. Fill in the numbers, hit the deadline, move on. That approach is now genuinely risky.
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If your firm handles conveyancing, the definition of a “Tax Adviser” just got a lot broader. HMRC has confirmed that new mandatory registration rules will encompass almost all conveyancing professionals. With significant penalties for non-compliance, understanding these HMRC Agent Services
