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The undertaking still open on a closed file: solicitors' undertakings after completion
A letter arrives eighteen months after completion. The seller's mortgage is still on the register, the undertaking to redeem it sits in an email on a closed file, and the conveyancer who gave it has left. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sits as a fee-paid county court judge, works through an illustrative figure for how many undertakings sit live on a firm's files, why closing a file does nothing to them, and what the court reads first when asked to enforce one.
Then five things a well run firm does about it without buying anything, one exercise to run on a single…
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