Price is right

An aggravating habit has resurfaced with some conveyancers cutting out the purchase price from office copy entries.This information is public and may be relevant...An aggravating habit has resurfaced with some conveyancers cutting out the purchase price from office copy entries.This information is public and may be relevant to a prospective purchaser and/or his mortgagees' solicitors.Concealment had effect in the past when the register was private.

Now it causes delay in recovering duplicate copies at a time when we all want to speed up the conveyancing process.Trevor Smith, solicitor, Saltdean, Brighton