Increasingly, original title deeds are disappearing and we are ever more dependent on obtaining copies from the Land Registry. Yet again this morning an office copy lease has arrived with the plans uncoloured and a power of attorney which had no relevance included as a page of the lease. I can think of numerous occasions when I have received office copies that were either incomplete, or with uncoloured plans, or no plan at all. There have been other occasions when I have requested documents that appear on the title and the Land Registry has not even got a copy.

It is all well and good to move towards paperless conveyancing, but should we be doing this before the Registry has carried out a proper audit to discover what percentage of the documents it holds are defective?

Nigel George, George and Co, Woolpit, Suffolk