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From the Land Registry web site

“The central service will provide for automatic exchange of contracts relating to all transactions in a property chain. For this and other purposes, conveyancers will need to have electronic signatures.”

Repeat after me. Electronic signatures are things you attach to documents, one per document. conveyancers will need to have certificates.

For a simple explanation of all this see my piece on e-conveyancing.

The thing is that anyone with even the slimmest of understanding of the technology would not make such a schoolboy howler. This is a disaster waiting to happen.