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Lawcomm Solicitors
Lawcomm Solicitors specialise in the provision of direct legal services on a nationwide basis to individual and business clients.
Features Include:
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- Competitive fixed fees
- Efficient service standards (92% client satisfaction rating based upon past performance)
- Friendly straightforward advice in plain English
- Extended Opening hours
- ISO9000 registered
- No need to visit our offices
- On-line Lawcommunicator, access to your file, 24 hours a day,
7 days a week over the Internet
- SMS updates
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Latest News
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6th April 2009
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HIPS UPDATE – 6TH APRIL 2009
From the 6th April 2009 all properties in England and Wales regardless of whether they are sold privately or through an estate agent will require a HIP in place before it is marketed.
Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ).
There is also a new component of the HIP which sellers will need to complete called a Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ). There are two forms of the PIQ, one for an existing property and the other for a newbuild
Specimens of the these forms can be found at the following ...
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26th March 2009
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MORTGAGE MIS-SELLING – LEGAL UPDATE
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDE:
The Financial Ombudsman Service has recently ruled that home owners can obtain financial compensation from mortgage lenders/brokers if they have failed to provide the borrower with suitable advice. Home owners who begin such claims early may be able to avoid repossession.
WHY HAVE THESE CHANGES BEEN MADE?
In the boom years lenders were approving mortgages at record rates. Mortgage brokers were reaping the benefits through commission. In the rush to provide mortgages it appears that these institutions may have been professionally negligent and mis-sold mortgages.
Lenders and brokers are regulated ... |
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14th February 2009
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Recent developments include:
In October 2008, the Competition Commission announced that from March 2010 PPI was no longer to be sold at the same time a loan is sold.
In January 2009 the Competition Commission banned the sale of PPI when arranging credit and for seven days thereafter and made further changes so that all PPI distributors are now to provide a personal PPI quote and annual statement.
Why have these changes been made?
The selling of loans is often ... |
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