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NLJ: focus on property

28 May 2019
Issue: 7842 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Property , Insurance surgery , Insurance / reinsurance
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For property solicitors, the intricacies of legal indemnity insurance ‘can often get lost in translation’, says legal indemnity executive and former underwriter Chloe Mulroy.

She fields daily calls from solicitors with queries about policies, and summarises these questions and concerns in this week’s NLJ property supplement.

Meanwhile, barrister Veronica Cowan examines how rogue managing agents can cause delays in leasehold conveyancing, and tax consultant David Hannah asks why solicitors are getting their Stamp Duty Land Tax sums wrong. Could it be time for conveyancing and taxes to go their separate ways, Hannah asks? He reports ‘growing murmurs’ of divorce unless simplification of this increasingly complicated tax takes place.

Also appearing in the property supplement, Sheila Kumar, chief executive of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, talks about a proposed cut in practising fees, and defence barrister Jessica Sobey explains why estate agents can be a crucial line of defence against money laundering.

 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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