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11 February 2022 / Donna Spence
Issue: 7966 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Why it’s time to get with the programme & embrace the future

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Donna Spence on why automating the conveyancing process is good news for clients & practitioners
  • The aim of automating the conveyancing process is to make services faster and more efficient and to provide the consumer with excellent hands-on care and customer service.

The conveyancing sector has been moving slowly towards the concept of the paperless office with some firms progressing towards this faster than others. However, with many solicitors set in their ways, it was often an uphill struggle to get their support for an online digital system and do away with paper files. At a firm where I worked some five years ago, they had planned to digitise everything by 2035.

These plans sound almost comical today after COVID-19 forced most conveyancing firms to make the transition to online. In common with the legal sector, the practice of conveyancing had to adapt fast to the digital world and become more streamlined.

Prior to and during lockdown, it would appear that many firms

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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

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NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
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
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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
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
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
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
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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