Davies and Partners is delighted to announce that the firm has been awarded accreditation by the Law Society to the Conveyancing Quality Scheme.

The Law Society launched the CQS in December 2010 to be an immediately recognisable mark of excellence in the provision of residential conveyancing services.  The big clue is in the title.  It is all about quality.

Stephen McColgan, a partner based at our Bristol office has led this initiative and has been responsible for piecing together in painstaking detail the information required by the Law Society to prove the accreditation of our practice is merited.  He comments:-

“This is a very important step forward for Davies and Partners.  It underlines very strongly our commitment to delivering conveyancing services by highly experienced well qualified lawyers, supported by suburb staff and state of the art technology.  CQS covers all of our people involved in residential property for private clients and also our large team that acts for well known names in the house-building industry conveying new homes and part exchanged properties.  Our residential property teams are based in Gloucester, Bristol and Birmingham and receive instructions from every part of England and Wales.  This is why, for us, CQS reaches so far into areas of practice where we offer great expertise to our clients.

Essentially CQS means that all of our colleagues undertaking this work have had their identities and professional qualifications verified.  They have undergone Criminal Records Bureau checks.  Their commitment to and attendance at many hours of continuing professional development courses and private study has had to be recorded and reviewed.  These requirements of CQS are not one-offs but will be continuing commitments as accreditation once granted by the Law Society is subject to annual review and there are no guarantees that it will be renewed.  The firm’s management procedures are subjected to detailed scrutiny as part of the process”.

Stephen further comments: “This reminds us to review constantly our standards and continuously raise the bar.  The client must always come first.  We are in a service industry.  The client is entitled to be assured that our services will be delivered to the highest standards.  CQS accreditation will enable us to demonstrate this against the backdrop of independent assessment using objective criteria. For a firm of our size and complexity to have been awarded this accreditation demonstrates our commitment to providing quality services in an increasingly competitive market place”.