Helle Jacobsen

  • News

    No to HSBC

    2012-03-29T00:00:00

    Having received the 13 pages of instructions from Countrywide Conveyancing Services in connection with a HSBC mortgage it is providing to my purchasing clients, it is obvious that this new procedure is doubling the work for conveyancing solicitors not on the HSBC panel while leaving all the liability and risk ...

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    Costly T&Cs

    2011-12-08T00:00:00

    Further to BK Watkinson’s letter I have seen an expense tucked away in the small print of terms and conditions, charging a client on a conveyance a sum approaching £100 as a contribution to the solicitors’ legal indemnity insurance.

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    Paying the penalty

    2011-07-14T00:00:00

    I read the article ‘Lenders vet solicitors on Google and note that lenders are monitoring the time solicitors take to register charges.