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NLJ this week: Conveyancing goes digital

21 May 2021
Issue: 7933 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Technology , Conveyancing , Property
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With the property sector currently ‘a hive of activity’, digital conveyancing is enjoying its own mini-boom, according to Bronwyn Townsend, senior marketing manager, InfoTrack.

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Townsend explains how social distancing requirements during the pandemic meant digitisation ‘seeped into places it had still yet to actively engage’. She writes that the benefits of automation are more than time saving and efficiency, they reduce ‘the risk of rekeying errors’.

Also in NLJ, barrister and journalist Veronica Cowan reports on the compliance benefits of electronic conveyancing and the rapid move from manual to digital ID checks in the past year.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ career profile: Liz McGrath KC

NLJ career profile: Liz McGrath KC

A good book, a glass of chilled Albarino, and being creative for pleasure help Liz McGrath balance the rigours of complex bundles and being Head of Chambers

Burges Salmon—Matthew Hancock-Jones

Burges Salmon—Matthew Hancock-Jones

Firm welcomes director in its financial services financial regulatory team

Gateley Legal—Sam Meiklejohn

Gateley Legal—Sam Meiklejohn

Partner appointment in firm’s equity capital markets team

NEWS

Walkers and runners will take in some of London’s finest views at the 16th annual charity event

Law school partners with charity to give free assistance to litigants in need

Could the Labour government usher in a new era for digital assets, ask Keith Oliver, head of international, and Amalia Neenan FitzGerald, associate, Peters & Peters, in this week’s NLJ

An extra bit is being added to case citations to show the pecking order of the judges concerned. Former district judge Stephen Gold has the details, in his ‘Civil way’ column in this week’s NLJ

The Labour government’s position on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is not yet clear

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