(a perspective from an e-commerce lawyer and a property lawyer - a variation of the article that appeared in the May edition of the Solicitors' Journal and the June edition of Negotiator Magazine)
New Technology, New Opportunity
We hope that doesn’t sound too new Labour because electronic conveyancing will happen and with the right will it could happen quite soon. Like Marvin the paranoid android, your computer probably has a brain the size of a planet, which you rarely get to use to anywhere near its full potential. The development of electronic conveyancing could be good news for both you and your computer. But how real is the government’s commitment to this technological innovation?
Consultation Paper
On a more serious note, on March 5th 2001 the Lord Chancellor’s Department issued a consultation paper entitled "Electronic Conveyancing, a draft order under section 8 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000", a grand-sounding piece of subordinate legislation with less grand,
