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21 May 2021
Issue: 7933 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Technology , Conveyancing , Property
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NLJ this week: Conveyancing goes digital

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With the property sector currently ‘a hive of activity’, digital conveyancing is enjoying its own mini-boom, according to Bronwyn Townsend, senior marketing manager, InfoTrack.

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Townsend explains how social distancing requirements during the pandemic meant digitisation ‘seeped into places it had still yet to actively engage’. She writes that the benefits of automation are more than time saving and efficiency, they reduce ‘the risk of rekeying errors’.

Also in NLJ, barrister and journalist Veronica Cowan reports on the compliance benefits of electronic conveyancing and the rapid move from manual to digital ID checks in the past year.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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