2006-12-20 23:04:00 · 14 answers · asked by rlle4 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
land ownership is public info!
2006-12-20 23:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Illegal is the wrong word. Any Land Registry employee is entitled to purchase official copies of the register and title plan, at a cost of £6 each, provided they make a formal application to the appropriate Land Registry office. Similarly, they could search for any property at www.landregisteronline.gov.uk and purchase online (not official) copies at a cost of £3 each. However, whilst any Land Registry employee has access to any registered title information, they can only legitimately access information appropriate to the particular case they are working on. It is inappropriate, and would be a disciplinary matter if caught, if any employee even accessed online information that they weren't entitled to, such as that of a neighbour. So, if you are interested in register information of, say, a neighbour, purchase the documents legitimately using forms OC1 and/or OC2 and post these (not personally deliver) to the Land Registry office. You are quite entitled to these documents as the Land Register has been 'open' since 1990.
2006-12-22 15:41:15 · answer #2 · answered by Cheeses of Nazareth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not illegal but certainly unethical. Anybody can after paying a small fee get information from the land registry office.
2006-12-24 12:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you will know, a lot of information on other properties is held for the public to view on their home computers. If you relayed that information then I don't think it would be illegal. I am wondering at the moment though what type of information you are thinking about.
2006-12-21 07:14:38 · answer #4 · answered by Iluv24 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha. Well, you couldn't do your job properly if you didn't.
It would be a disciplinary matter if you were caught supplying information to third parties, such as how much celebrities paid for their home.
However, much of LR's information is freely available to the public (on payment of a fee), so there's not much that most staff could do that would a) be of interest and b) not be available through other routes.
2006-12-21 13:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by in vino veritas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you would be expected to go through the public channels and pay the £2 (or whattever ) to get the publicly available details.
Anything more than that and you should be sacked.
I suspect its also illegal if you dont go via the public channels.
2006-12-21 07:12:38 · answer #6 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not strictly illegal as the public can request this information, but then again it depends what you are intending on doing with the information.
2006-12-21 07:13:20 · answer #7 · answered by Bladerunner (Dave) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not illegal to obtain such information, but it is against the law to tell anyone else about what you discovered, i.e. to make an unauthorised disclosure.
2006-12-21 11:52:07 · answer #8 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No info kept at the LR is considered to be in the public domain as anyone can request the info and the LR will give it to them. Working at the LR makes no difference.
2006-12-21 07:08:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get title information on any property, for various reaons, such title disputes, boundary problems, rights and easements etc, bigger docs are quite expensive to get so only serious people who need them will pay anyhow!
2006-12-22 11:03:56 · answer #10 · answered by logicalawyer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's all public information. Anyone can go to the Auditor's office and see who owns what anytime they want.
2006-12-21 07:07:01 · answer #11 · answered by capnemo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋