Mr John Taylor: ...House that I went straight many years ago and have given up practising the law, so I may be a bit out of date. Would he care to tell me whether it is still necessary, under English land law, for a conveyancing deed to be signed, sealed and delivered?
Mr John Taylor: ...the Committee may know, I was a young lawyer at the time that Act was passed. In those days I did not have my own practice; I did what the partners in the firm told me to do, and they told me to do conveyancing. With the onset of the 1967 enfranchisements, people in my part of the world, predominantly with 99-year leases, sought to buy their freeholds. It became clear very quickly that...
Mr John Taylor: ...who handle the disputes before tribunals and in law courts. I am therefore speaking against members of my own profession. I do not want them to have any work from disputes at all. They can do the conveyancing, but I do not want it to turn into litigation. I once worked for a firm where the conveyancing files turned into litigation files and I did not stay there long; I did not like the...
Mr John Taylor: Does the Minister mind telling the House, on the matter of the solicitor's qualification, why a clerk of a magistrates court should need to be trained and examined in conveyancing, probate, wills and trusts?