Penn v Bristol & West Building Society & ors [1997] EWCA Civ 1416

Fraud: Buyer beware

Sonia Ferreira, Karen Jacobs and Tim Constable consider who is to blame if the seller is an imposter ‘In order to provide protection for a buyer, a buyer’s solicitor may wish to seek an undertaking from a seller’s solicitor that it will only release completion moneys upon receiving confirmation that it acts for the true …

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Cybercrime And Conveyancing: Safe as houses?

First money laundering, then mortgage fraud, and now conveyancer hacking. Alasdair Urwin and Sandip Singh explain the latest fraud risks of which lenders, borrowers and conveyancers should be aware ‘In what are being described as some of the most worrying scams seen by the SRA, fraudsters are hacking into law firm e-mail accounts and intercepting …

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