Tony Lillystone, on 1 September, suggested that title insurance (http://www.deferolaw.com/profiles/blogs/will-title-insurance-replace-traditional-conveyancing) could be the way forward for conveyancing.

I commented to agree with Tony's idea, but I wanted to follow up the point further.

For many of us title indemnity insurance has been a necessary evil…

As increasing numbers of Conveyancing transactions seem to require some form of indemnity insurance, I sometimes wonder whether title insurance should replace traditional Conveyancing in this country.

I gather it is virtually universal in the USA, but then they do not have the same system of title registration as that provided by the Land Registry.

In reality, there are rarely problems with existing registered titles, as the Registry will not complete a…