Top tips for 2010

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, legal system, professionals | 0 comments In the Law Society Property Section magazine for this month, 11 members of the section’s executive committee gave their top tips on how to prosper in the new decadeAlmost all of them were very good, but almost all of them were steps, attitudes and procedures we at Nelsons Property Lawyers had adopted from Day 1 – we are looking for ways to imprive beyond these relatively basic client...
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Money laundering

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers, legal system, risk | 0 comments Though conveyancers have been at the sharp end of money laundering activity to date, it seems that litigators are now being targeted as wellUntil now, it was thought that litigation was a less fertile area for laundering the proceeds of crime than conveyancing was: fraudsters had been setting up spurious property transactions in order to launder money, while litigation was considered a less...
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April Fool giveaway

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Blogs, business, buying-pubs, English Pub, law, legal, pub-buying, pub-sale, pub-sales, pubs, selling, solicitor | 0 comments It’s my birthday in April, so I’m giving a 10% discount on all new legal work where I receive (and accept)instructions in April 2010 – you need to quote “promo code April Fool” when giving the instructions (on the authority form, in the case of new clients) in order to qualify, so don’t forget Comments
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April Fool giveaway

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, lawyers | 0 comments It’s my birthday in April, so I’m giving a 10% discount on all new legal work where I receive (and accept)instructions in April 2010 – you need to quote “promo code April Fool” when giving the instructions (on the authority form, in the case of new clients) in order to qualify, so don’t forget
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Another school governor monitoring visit

Posted by Justin on Mar 18, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, cynicism, governor, local, small towns, Tenterden, Tenterden Infant School | 0 comments I have carried out another monitoring visit, this time focusing on “Community Cohesion”, which is a formal way of saying, “We all have to get along together, so play nicely” – I understate for effect, of course, but it does seem to require a lot of input for something that, in 90% of schools, must be taught and experienced automatically anyway. Ah, well, it ticks...
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School monitoring visit

Posted by Justin on Mar 10, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, local, small towns, Tenterden, Tenterden Infant School | 0 comments In my capacity as a governor of the Infant School in Tenterden, I today paid a monitoring visit to the schoolIt is always a delight visiting the school: all the children are well-behaved, happy and hard-working, and they really seem to thrive in the school’s positive atmosphere; It makes me quite proud to be a small part of that successMy visit focused on the “drop-off club” in...
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