E-Conveyancing
Author: Hunter Blyth

Several Land Registry Offices in the world have started to look
at the proposition of E-Conveyancing. E-Conveyancing is the
response to the inevitable shift of commerce to the Electronic
world and to the World Wide Web. For some people this is a smart
move because that is where everything is going anyways.
E-Conveyancing is set to relieve the world of all the paper work
that is associated with that of Regular Conveyancing.
E-Conveyancing is pretty much similar to that of regular
Conveyancing, the process is the same, the only element missing
is paper.

E-Conveyancing like other new ideas has its critics; perhaps
the same way as the telephone and the internet had theirs
before. This is the future of commerce and it is only natural
that Land Registry will follow suit.

So, let us truly define what E-Conveyancing is. E-Conveyancing
is the shift of the present Conveyancing system into an
electronic form. This way, everything is done electronically,
from the contracts, the exchange of titles to the affixation of
electronic signatures. Perhaps, the only thing that will not
change is the payment, because some people can still choose to
pay in cash. Well, not for long. Large sums as we know are now
better handled via electronic transfer from bank to bank.

E-Conveyancing does not mean the elimination of the lawyer.
They still play a big part in the process making sure that
everything is up to legal standards and that the parties
involved get a fair and legal treatment as stipulated in the
contracts that were mutually agreed upon. E-Conveyancing will be
made possible through the increase in availability of
information regarding the properties that will be dealt with. It
means that, E-Conveyancing is not an overnight thing. The
transfer of written and paper data into electronic information
takes time and is bound to be taxing. But, once it's all done
and new Conveyancing contracts are made into electronic forms
then things will go much smoother.

As said, E-Conveyancing has its own set of lobbyist and people
who oppose the idea. Some people even go as far as saying that
E-Conveyancing will never get off as nothing can effectively
replace the traditional methods of Conveyancing. The greatest
issue raised against E-Conveyancing is perhaps the uneasiness
that people feel about signing documents electronically. They
feel that this diminishes the legality of the process.

That is the same thing said when banks introduced the ATM, now
look where we are with the ATM technology. In the United States
alone there are as many ATM machines as there are Starbucks
shops.

We believe that E-Conveyancing is a wise move and that it is
only the beginning. More and more firms and more transactions in
the future will be done the electronic way. Starting now is a
very wise decision, it may take some time and may seem highly
unconventional and it will undoubtedly have its own sets of
flaws. But, as anything else, it will manage to get back up on
its feet and learn from mistakes making it into a flawless
system.


About The Author: Hunter writes articles for Stirling Legal
Services and Real Compensation. http://www.stirlinglegal.com
http://www.realcompensation.co.uk/