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These plans feel intuitively wrong, since there has always been a quiet integrity about the Land Registry's work, which is hardly surprising bearing in mind its historic and pivotal role in administering title to the very fabric of the nation.

Like the Criminal Justice System changes are proposed which will be seen in the future as pointless constitutional vandalism much like what the previous government did to the office of lord Chancellor.

The Law of unintended consequences might also mean for instance that the housing market is held to ransom by the demands of rapacious corporations no matter what statutory protections might be put in place.