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The Law Society has published a response from its Conveyancing and Land Law Committee and the City of London Law Society’s Land Law Committee on the proposed changes to the Electronic Communications Code. 
HMRC has published new guidance on when and how non-UK resident purchasers of property in England and Northern Ireland can apply for a repayment of Stamp Duty Land Tax from 1 April 2021.
Post-Maymask, Cecily Crampin & Tricia Hemans consider the effect of mortgage receivership on company directors’ powers to deal with property
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced that it is extending the ban on commercial evictions to 30 June 2021, while the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions and the requirement to provide a six-month notice period to tenants before eviction have been extended until at least 31 May 2021 as a result of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Mark Pawlowski looks at some unusual aspects of leasehold law
Proposals for enforcing breaches of the Commonhold Community Statement, outlined by Ryan Kohli
The Law Society of England and Wales has published its response to the Spring Budget 2021, in which it welcomed the fact that the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday will not be abruptly brought to an end and that the government implemented one of the solutions the Law Society had suggested in relation to the problem of ending the SLDT holiday on 31 March 2021
Property lawyers have welcomed the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) transition period, announced in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget
The Law Society has formed a taskforce to lead conveyancing reform
Stamp duty holiday end ‘bigger than COVID-19 or Brexit’ for property sector
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

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Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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