Conveyancing woes still ongoing

Some home buyers and sellers are still facing conveyancing problems more than a month after an IT systems failure paralysed some of the UK’s biggest conveyancing practices, it has been reported. Premier Property Lawyers, JS Law, DC Law and Advantage Property Lawyers, which are part of the Simplify group, were hit by a “security incident” in early November. The incident is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. The latest update on Simplify’s website states that “an ever-growing proportion of our conveyancing colleagues are back up and running on core systems and progressing transactions”. However, the Law Gazette has heard from individuals in transactions allegedly involving Premier Property Lawyers. 

The Law Society Gazette (16/12/2021)