The seller’s rights

SIR – In the process of selling my house, I informed the buyers’ solicitors that, as one of the original Licensed Conveyancers with some 40 years’ conveyancing experience, I would be acting for myself (although I am now retired).

Having taken advice from their trade union, otherwise known as the Law Society, they informed me that they could not permit me to act for myself, the excuse being that they were not able to pay money into a private account (in other words, my account).

This seems to me to be a restrictive practice of the very worst sort, and a considerable limitation on the rights of the man in the street. Michael Hickmott

Exeter, Devon