The Dreamvar Appeal: Material changes to the exposure of solicitors caught up in fraudulent property transactions

Conveyancers and their Insurers will note material changes to their claim exposures following this week’s Court of Appeal decision writes Stephen Reilly, Partner, and Lisa Henty, Associate. The Appeal decision means that the seller’s solicitors, as well as the buyer’s solicitors, are now squarely exposed to liability in the case of an impostor property seller.