An experienced commercial partner who continued acting for several developers and buyer companies for months after admitting to a client there was a conflict of interests, was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £40,000 in costs.
Residential
Coastal real estate: key issues around marine licensing and harbour limits
Solicitors who have clients owning, developing or looking to purchase property or land around the coast of Britain need to consider a range of additional legal issues, explains Lar
31 Jul 2019
Regulate property agents with sweeping reforms, says working group
Property agencies should be regulated by a new independent property-agent regulator and made subject to a code of practice, an independent working group ha
20 Jul 2019
Form with function: using a consistent ‘key features’ document
A new form designed and endorsed by property specialist bodies is already addressing concerns around leasehold and supporting a move to managed freehold, says Bet
01 May 2019
Relief effort: forfeiture and assisted suicide
Mark Pawlowski reviews the Court of Appeal’s latest ruling on the application of the forfeiture rule in relation to assisted suicide and considers circumstances where judges will likely grant relie
06 Apr 2019
Seeing through price transparency
Canny conveyancers have long understood the benefits of price transparency, argues Paul Hajek; it’s just a shame the regulators still don’t see how informed consent is nothing withou
02 Feb 2019
Housing court proposals met with scepticism
Government proposals to establish a specialist housing court in the hope of reducing delays have been met with scepticism by the Civil Justice Council (CJC) thi
25 Jan 2019
