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Regulatory Arrangements Guidance

27 January, 2025

We publish guidance to help our regulated community to comply with our overarching Code of Conduct and subsidiary (topic-specific) Codes, and to meet their legal obligations. Compliance with guidance is strongly recommended but is not mandatory. Accounts Guidance Aged Balances Guidance Purpose of this Guidance This guidance aims to help the regulated community resolve the [Read more]

CLC making use of its full range of regulatory powers to ensure proportionate regulation

20 October, 2022

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is making greater use of its enforcement powers as it looks to ensure it is a proportionate regulator, chief executive Sheila Kumar has said. Meanwhile, CLC chair Dame Janet Paraskeva says it will step up efforts to encourage firms and lawyers from other parts of the legal profession to [Read more]

Regulatory Arrangements Guidance

21 December, 2017

We publish guidance to help our regulated community to comply with our overarching Code of Conduct and subsidiary (topic-specific) Codes, and to meet their legal obligations. Compliance with guidance is strongly recommended but is not mandatory. Print Download Pdf Accounts Guidance Aged Balances Guidance (Version 1.0 – effective from 1 January 2025) Purpose of this [Read more]

New apprenticeships in law planned for Wales

26 July, 2016

Aspiring lawyers in Wales will soon have a new way to begin their careers as apprenticeships in conveyancing and probate are due to go live in early 2017. Three qualifications will be on offer.  The first two lead to recognition by the CLC as a Conveyancing Technician or a Probate Technician. It’s a great start [Read more]

Environmental Searches

18 February, 2015

Risk and responsibility   The Council of Mortgage Lenders Handbook requires conveyancers to procure Local Authority searches to determine whether there are any contaminated land records. However it does not contain a general requirement for environmental search reports, though risk appetite obviously varies between individual lenders (as set out in Part 2 of the Handbook), with some [Read more]