Financial Director, 9 May 2019. Click here to read the article.
New Code for Completion by Post – What now for conveyancers?
Bold Legal Group webinar (with Rob Hailstone and Lorraine Richardson, property solicitor and legal trainer), 26 April 2019. Click here to contact Bold Legal Group for details.
Conveyancing fraud in 2019
LexisNexis Webinars UK (with Jeremy Cousins QC), 31 January 2019. Click here for a YouTube preview or here for the full webinar.
Six points: practical issues arising from the judgment in Dreamvar
Jeremy Cousins QC and I were recently kindly invited by Bold Legal Group (together with Lawyer Checker and Today’s Conveyancer) to present a webinar on the implications of the Court of Appeal decision in Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de Reya and P&P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP. During the webinar, we …
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A CPD revolution
According to a report published the previous year by the research firm Outsell, the estimated value of the UK legal CPD market in 2016 was £21m. In a piece in the September 2016 issue of Counsel magazine, Stephen Honey, Head of Learning at LexisNexis UK, outlined the benefits which the changing face of CPD could …
Can ‘active cash’ really beat the stock market?
If the average retail customer were to follow Warren Buffet’s advice never to invest in a business you can’t understand, it’s likely that people would be holding a lot more cash. Time and time again, claimants say that they didn’t really understand the product which they were sold but were assured that, in the medium …
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Consumer Credit Act “unfair relationships”: mental health and the exercise of a mortgagee’s power of sale
Amendments to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 introducing the open-ended concept of an “unfair relationship” came into force in 2007. Subsequent case law defining or limiting this concept has been sparse. Adding to the case law, the Court of Appeal has now considered the matter in the context of the exercise of a mortgagee’s power …
