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Legal tech provider InfoTrack has announced the launch of electronic client onboarding solution eCOS.

Veronica Cowan quizzes experts on the pressure faced by the property sector as the end of the stamp duty holiday looms

Divorce applications nearly doubled between April and July last year as couples struggled with the first lockdown, according to the Legal Services Board (LSB) COVID-19 research dashboard into the pandemic’s impact on legal services.

The Law Society has welcomed Land Registry proposals to allow digital identity checking in conveyancing.

The Land Registry has published its ‘Safe Harbour Standard’ requirements for digital identity checks during conveyancing

Veronica Cowan advocates using technology to innovate in service provision

The first electronically signed deed has been submitted for a house sale, in a historic moment for lawyers

Specially trained dogs are now working to sniff out the invasive, property value-destroying menace of Japanese knotweed

‘Clear signs’ of consolidation are emerging in the residential conveyancing market as large volume players buy and merge, according to an IRN Research report published this week

Conveyancers have been issued with pandemic-compliant guidance amid government moves to kickstart the housing market

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Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

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Law Officers mark 25 years of Pro Bono Week

The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work

NLJ this week: Debts, disputes & digital bluster

A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense

NLJ this week: Who shaped the witness’s story?

Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete

NLJ this week: New law, old convictions

Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice

NLJ this week: Beyond environmental offences

The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed

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Conveyancing

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions