Your Letters – Page 49

  • Opinion

    A covenant for reform

    14 October 2013

    Is there any chance that the government might now implement the recommendations making positive covenants enforceable against subsequent owners of a property?

  • Opinion

    Name checks

    14 October 2013

    It is surely courteous to use the name that we call ourselves.

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    Road accidents: fuel effect

    14 October 2013

    I was astonished to see the claim that ‘road traffic accidents are down 20%’, due allegedly to fuel prices.

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    Don’t eradicate religion from public life

    07 October 2013

    I read with interest the story of a claim that for the judiciary to participate in the traditional opening of year service shows some kind of bias.

  • Opinion

    Driven to extinction by PII fiasco

    07 October 2013

    If what the brokers tell me is right, firms like mine are on the point of extinction.

  • Opinion

    Will-search charge

    07 October 2013

    I decided it was time to deal with the increasing cost of dealing with other people’s over-cautious approach to distribution of estates.

  • Opinion

    Wrong address

    07 October 2013

    I agree that ‘Dear Sirs’ is probably an inappropriate generic salutation.

  • Opinion

    Owners registry: not in my name

    07 October 2013

    The Law Society does not speak for me when it criticises proposals for a registry of beneficial owners of companies.

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    Old covenants plea

    07 October 2013

    The plea for something to be done about old covenants is timely.

  • Opinion

    Legal sector: different eras

    07 October 2013

    I question your decision to publish what is an uninformed and frankly offensive comment on the profession.

  • Opinion

    Refugees: building a defence

    30 September 2013

    The Crown Prosecution Service must be more sensitive to the provision of refugee defences.

  • Opinion

    Calling time on old covenants

    30 September 2013

    Surely it is time that something was done about old property covenants, which are nowadays totally meaningless.

  • Opinion

    Keep taking the medicine

    30 September 2013

    I am aware that the government is keen to encourage those who are in dispute to mediate and resolve their difficulties without going to court.

  • Opinion

    Bar plays by different rules

    30 September 2013

    Members of the profession may not know that they can be out of pocket paying counsel’s fees when the court has determined that those fees are unreasonable.

  • Opinion

    Regulations give guidance on third-party libels

    23 September 2013

    MoJ publication on user-generated content gives lawyers a much clearer idea of where they stand.

  • Opinion

    Complicated conveyancing

    23 September 2013

    Why has the relatively simple act of buying and selling a house seemingly become so complicated?

  • Opinion

    Gender-exclusive address

    23 September 2013

    It is ridiculous it is in this day and age to address another firm as ‘Dear Sirs’ when probably more than half the lawyers in that firm are female.

  • Opinion

    ​In our hours of need

    16 September 2013

    Firms must give employees genuine mastery over their working hours to build a meaningful work-life balance.  

  • Opinion

    Valuing mediation

    16 September 2013

    If more solicitors took the trouble to properly understand mediation, their clients would value them for it.

  • Opinion

    Court support

    16 September 2013

    If an experienced solicitor, legal executive or paralegal takes the view that the client has capacity, then the High Court should be supporting us.