sellers' 'speed up' packI think, in practice, the new sellers' pack for conveyancing holds little fear for solicitors as most practitioners have the good practice of preparing a package in any event.The preparation of the package to 'speed up' conveyancing is likely to have the unintended consequence of making both gazumping and contract races easier as the provision of a complete pack may cut out much of the usual solicitor ping-pong game.

The pack will not overcome the real conveyancer's bugbear - the chain.Raymond Hayes, Bartons, Salcombe, Devon