While I am sure that Julie Barry at the Land Registry (see [2005] Gazette, 28 April, 14) is genuinely trying to assist with the development of a computerised electronic conveyancing system, I cannot agree that it will benefit from a 'common standard'.


We are not transferring cans of beans or packets of cornflakes. People's houses are very personal to them - each property is of a different shape and size and is subject to different covenants, easements and difficulties. Unless it is the government's intention to rewrite property law, I cannot see how this will either improve or speed up the conveyancing process.


The government should stop all this computerisation until the systems it has already introduced have been properly tested, to provide some benefit to the taxpayer as we are footing the bills for all of this ideology.


Diana Miller, licensed conveyancer, Badminton, Gloucestershire