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25 May 2018 / Janet Paraskeva
Issue: 7794 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Laying the foundations

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Janet Paraskeva discusses the CLC’s strategy to become the regulator of choice for property lawyers

  • Licensed conveyancers, and indeed a growing number of solicitors, see a real benefit in having regulation tailored to their own areas of practice.

With the government pressing ahead with plans to improve the home-buying process, it is a busy time to be regulating conveyancers.

There is, of course, no shortage of regulators in the legal market. There are now ten overseen by the Legal Services Board, and the largest ones—such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority—regulate lawyers undertaking the full range of legal work.

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has previously explored widening the scope of its regulation to encompass activities other than conveyancing and probate, which is what we regulate at the moment. But in discussing our strategy for the next four years, we concluded that there were enough generalist regulators already—we decided we would be better off focusing on our existing strengths and becoming the regulator of choice for property lawyers.

Most importantly, this was what conveyancers

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