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HM Land Registry: delays & risk in conveyancing

10 July 2024
Issue: 8079 / Categories: Legal News , Conveyancing , Property , Profession
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‘Slow or sloppy’ title change applications from conveyancers are making HM Land Registry delays worse and creating compliance risks, the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) warned last week

Its Risk Agenda 2024, which lists the biggest risks facing the sector, highlighted post-completion work as ‘a growing concern’ with failures sometimes only identified years later.

It expresses concern that ‘some practices are not taking their responsibility seriously or are using HM Land Registry to check their work rather than making an effort to ensure that it is accurate to begin with… The reality is that clients have been charged for this work and there is an obligation to perform it promptly and with diligence’.

CLC chief executive Sheila Kumar said: ‘Trip wires abound in the modern legal landscape.’

Issue: 8079 / Categories: Legal News , Conveyancing , Property , Profession
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