The Property Lawyers Action Group (PLAG) has unveiled a rebrand and will now be known as the The Property Lawyers Alliance (PLA).
PLAG was formed last year to counter what it perceived as multiple threats to all property lawyers.
Last July a special general meeting of the Law Society, requisitioned by the organisation’s solicitor members, called for a vote of no confidence in the Law Society (SGM). Although the vote was unsuccessful, PLAG’s efforts resulted in the Law Society organising a consultation on its controversial fifth edition of the Property Information Form (TA6).
The TA6 is, in turn, based on what PLA argues is the misguided and potentially unlawful inflation of the concept of ‘material information’. We are told that PLA is an evolution of PLAG to a wider, more inclusive group of property lawyers, that will support, inform, and protect the integrity of all property lawyers operating as part of the wider legal profession.
PLA feels strongly that lawyers at the heart of conveyancing, and the interpretation of land law principles underpinning it, and the fundamental aim of the rebranded group ‘is to defend the role of independent property lawyers as part of the legal landscape identified above’.
“All the conventions of daily law practice find their highest expression in integrity. Something the PLA feels must remain an integral part of conveyancing,” the group stated.
