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PREM19/1558
Legal Procedure (Restrictions on conveyancing for reward: solicitors' conveyancing monopoly; increased competition)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 155
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83 Nov 10 Th Major Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("Restrictions on Conveyancing for Reward") [Policy Unit memo on 'breaking the solicitors' monopoly'] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 16 We Major Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comments on conclusions of H Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 17 Th Major Legal Procedure: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: MT presses for explorataion of more extensive reform] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 7 We Major Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("The Solicitors' Conveyancing Monopoly") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: meeting with Tebbit; Austin Mitchell's Home Buyers Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 8 Th Major Legal Procedure: Tebbit minute to MT ("Solicitors' Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: line to take at Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Barclay minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: guidance to Tebbit on line to take at Cabinet] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 12 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Hailsham letter to MT ("Restrictions Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges cautious approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We Major Legal Procedure: Armstrong note to MT (Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services) [Hailsham resignation threat: '...the Lord Chancellor is very steamed up about conveyancing'] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We Major Legal Procedure: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Restrictions on Conveyancing for Reward (C(83)35)") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 14 We Major Legal Procedure: Mount minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges more robust approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major Legal Procedure: Barclay minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: Government response to Austin Mitchell MP's House Buyers Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Feb 15 We Major Legal Procedure: Turnbull minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: answer to Parliamentary question] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 2 Tu Major Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing by Non-Solicitors and Employed Solicitors") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: urges robust approach and opposes Lord Chancellor's position] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 3 We Major Legal Procedure: No.10 letter to Lord President's Office (Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services) [MT concerned that Whitelaw's proposals 'may not be sufficient to keep the initiative'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 8 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: report on H Committee position] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 12 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Conveyancing") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: H Committee proposals are 'a weak package'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 18 Th Major Legal Procedure: Rees minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: Rees believes H Committee proposals too timid] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 19 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: supportive of Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 22 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Hailsham minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 24 We Major Legal Procedure: Jenkin minute to MT ("Conveyancing for Reward") [Solicitors' monopoly on provision of conveyancing services: comment on Rees' proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]