Licensed conveyancing champion Lester Dempster advises Case Load that Joke of the Month must go to Thomson-Brookers for organising high power seminars to explain aspects of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 – without involving conveyancers. Lester, who was bad-mouthed and vilified for years by jealous lawyers who tried everything to get him run out town, says lawyers, academics and folk from the Serious Fraud Office and Land Information will deliver the seminars, planned for Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland in August and September. But no-one from the non-lawyer licensed conveyancers’ group it seems. He told Case Load that when he approached the organisers to offer the conveyancers’ side of the story his offer was declined because all spaces were taken. Lester, who is soon to leave his Waiheke south sea island paradise and set up shop in the Christchurch suburb of Belfast, makes the point that under the new Act, his group is the only one entitled to call themselves conveyancers.

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