CORT

The Conveyancing Committee of the Law Society is pleased to recommend to the profession the computerised requisitions on title software package - CORT - recently launched by the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association.

This software package will enable computerised solicitors acting for vendors to reply to the standard requisitions on title without the necessity to utilise the printed forms, carbon paper and typewriters.

To establish the introduction of the software package into the mainstream of conveyancing, the following recommendation is made by the Committee viz:-

The vendor’s solicitor who intends using the CORT package should notify the purchaser’s solicitor of this fact when submitting contracts, also advising the purchaser’s solicitor that he proposes giving to the purchaser’s solicitor a set of standard requisitions on title with replies thereto at the time of returning to the purchaser’s solicitor his client’s part of the contract for sale executed by the vendor.

When the purchaser’s solicitor receives the requisitions on title with replies he can adopt such requisitions and replies and raise any other requisitions and/or objections which he considers necessary and appropriate to the transaction. The additional requisitions and/or objections should be raised by letter and, of course, will be replied to by letter.

The Committee believes that the advantage of the system will be to speed up the process of conveyancing, reduce the bulk of documentation sent between offices with a resulting reduction in postal and other charges and ease of production of documentation.

The CORT software package is available from £95.00 by contacting David Walley, 87 Amiens Street, Dublin 1 Tel: (01) 8363655.