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The Land Registry is a world class organisation , with a priceless public sector ethos committed to protecting the integrity of the record of the ownership of the very fabric of the nation.

You cannot shatter the coherence of such a body by stripping out profit streams for outside investors to distort and corrupt, without the integrity of the state title guarantee being contaminated to some degree.

This is fixing a problem which isn't there.

How long will it be until magistrates courts become retail style outlets for local justice perhaps "Justice 'r' Us?

The impotent Law Society has the resources to make a fuss about this piece of treasury inspired dogma - will it?