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Sandie Graff
- Opinion
Check out the fraud T&Cs
What is the legal community doing to protect home buyers and sellers?
- Opinion
Demand better from HMRC
HMRC makes numerous incorrect demands in stamp duty transactions, causing unnecessary work.
- Opinion
Missing Link
Until recently, periodic surveys revealed overwhelming satisfaction with services provided by solicitors, and dishonesty was reported and hopefully occurred very infrequently – when we were professionals, in other words.
- News
Divorce advice
Many years ago at a local meeting of either Relate or the former Solicitors Family Law Association (now Resolution), I proposed to an eminent judge that government health warnings appeared on divorce petitions.
- News
Client interest
In his recent blog, ‘What Mid Staffs and RBS have in common’, Eduardo Reyes asks: ‘Could a greater emphasis on professional ethics have helped prevent failings?’ With the advent of alternative business structures in particular, being a professional now only means that others have a stick with which to beat ...
- News
Time to buck trend
Why, since the Law Society’s regulatory function passed to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, should we as a profession (in common with our brethren at the bar) be overseen by so many authoritarian organisations which we are compelled to fund?
- News
Indemnity cover saved
Your correspondent of 24 May omitted to mention that by ‘giving the practice away’, at least the professional indemnity runoff cover (two and a half times the last premium) was saved.
- News
Recipe for fraud
The Law Society’s insert in the 25 March Gazette highlighted the issue of fraud in relation to money laundering and mortgages.
- News
‘The F word’
The Law Society’s insert in the 25 March issue highlighted the issue of fraud in relation to money laundering and mortgages.
- News
Contact details
Why are addresses and telephone numbers so frequently omitted from email communications (despite the plethora of disclaimers etc attached)? Why in the most elaborate websites is ‘contact us’ the hardest or last thing to find?