With legal aid in apparent terminal decline, one of the urgent issues for the Law Society is to find a robust voice for conveyancing.

Speaking to many in the profession, there is real resentment and frustration at increasingly feeling like a commodity to be booted about and relegated to the lowest in the food chain.


Should the Law Society openly endorse solicitor estate agencies to increase control of the market and income - and lead the way in helping the profession to set them up? The profession must arrange thousands of insurance indemnity policies each week. Could the Law Society investigate launching our own, so that all could share in the commissions instead of giving it to someone else?


The challenge for the Law Society is how it can harness the frustration of many conveyancers and channel this into further, real and tangible results, to increase not only our esteem and market control but our profits.


Chris Sanders, Austin Sanders, Darlington