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Letter: challenging factors' rates
Should higher charges close to settlement be challenged as duress?
Letter: customise, don’t commoditise
Taking a little more time can often give you an advantage, and justify a higher fee
Letter: praise for ScotLIS
Give Registers of Scotland credit for an excellent service
Letter: dumped by Lloyds
Was law firm ownership, not employee experience, key to panel rejection?
Letter: no discharge – what remedy?
What can a solicitor do if a lender fails without cause to deliver a discharge? An amendment to the standard clauses might be an answer
HMRC revises residential property CGT payment scheme
Rules for UK residents and non-residents to be aligned
Letter: why the voluntary registration delays?
Clients have paid a lot, but are still waiting, and no information is forthcoming
Electronic land registration regulations in hand
Registers targeting fully digital application system
Letter: holding the Keeper to account (1)
ARTL reply suggests double standards being applied
Letter: holding the Keeper to account (2)
ARTL reply does not address the question of money wasted
Buying and selling in Scotland: still on track?
When few transactions actually fall through, it would serve clients (and the profession's reputation) better not to leave so much to the last minute in a house sale and purchase
Letter: ARTL: just a mistake?
Should the Keeper not be held to account for money spent on ARTL, as solicitors are for errors in applications? – with reply from the Keeper
LBTT supplement relief change to be made retrospective
Bill will extend replacement dwelling concession brought in by order
Yes, private parking penalties can be enforced
Dundee case finds contract established on basis of signs
Ironing out additional dwelling supplement
Anomalies where joint purchase replaces single ownership removed
Letter: "Practitioners or salesmen?": a comment
Examination of title must not be allowed to become a lost art
Letter: make powers of attorney inclusive
Reference to Matrimonial Homes Act affidavit should cover Civil Partnership Act too
Was the Onesavings Bank decision correct?
There are reasons in law why the pursuers should have succeeded
Letter: registration frustrations
Frustrations are building at practical aspects of policy in relation to the Land Register, which Registers of Scotland seem unwilling to act on
Letter: rejections – compounded by delays
The length of time that sometimes elapses before Registers of Scotland reject an application is a further cause for concern
Letter: more rejection issues
Practice should change to protect the client, where the solicitor is not at fault, or any fault is trivial
Letter: why so many rejections?
Time for a review of the Keeper's policy
Invisible cowpats
Letter: late registering of notices of payment of improvement grant creates hazards for property lawyers
Letter: will normal online service ever resume?
Fear that service complaints relating to online estate agency may result in more regulation catching more than just the guilty