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Description
A Practical Approach to Conveyancing is a direct and approachable guide through the vagaries of the English conveyancing system. It provides practical solutions to many of the more commonplace difficulties. Helpful checklists are provided, together with precedent documents, clauses and forms that together make up an invaluable procedural structure for anyone interested in conveyancing.
Modern conveyancing practice requires efficiency with cost effectiveness and these two themes pervade the book. Every chapter includes key point summaries for the busy practitioner and suggestions are made where savings of time and effort can be made (without detriment to the client) that may contribute to greater profitability for the conveyancer.
Considerable space is devoted to residential leasehold transactions, a problematic area in conveyancing, and particular attention is given to the essential contents of a modern lease. Mortgages are also considered in detail along with the effects of the Conveyancing Protocol, in its latest form. Most importantly, the book covers changes made by the Land Registration Act 1997 and the Land Registration Rules 1997.
A Practical Approach to Conveyancing is essential reading for solicitors, their support staff, trainee solicitors, licensed conveyancers, legal executives and law students alike.
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Taking instructions and other initial matters
3. The draft contract
4. Pre-contract searches and enquiries, town and country planning
5. Deduction and investigation of title
6. Exchange of contracts; death or insolvency of contracting parties between
exchange and completion
7. The purchase deed and mortgage
8. Pre-completion procedures and completion
9. Post-completion procedures: delays and remedies
10. Leaseholds
11. New properties
12. Commercial conveyancing, business tenancies and tenanted properties
Appendix 1 - The National Conveyancing Protocol (3rd edition)
Appendix 2 - Standard Conditions of Sale, 3rd edition (National Conditions of Sale,
23rd edition. Law Society's Conditions of Sale 1995)
Appendix 3 - Law Society's standard form of contract
Appendix 4 - Special condition making contract conditional upon satisfactory local search
Appendix 5 - Precedent for lock-out agreement
Appendix 6 - Local search application form
Appendix 7 - Property Information forms
Appendix 8 - Example of an epitome of title
Appendix 9 - Rule 72 transfer
Appendix 10 - Precedent for conveyance of part of unregistered land
Appendix 11 - Completion Information and Requisitions on Title
Appendix 12 - Specimen completion statements
Appendix 13 - Law Society's Code for Completion by Post (1984 edition)
Appendix 14 - Land Registry Form
Appendix 15 - Land Registry Form
Index
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Author Details
Robert Abbey, solicitor, is the Chair of the Department of Professional Legal Studies at the University of Westminster. He is also a consultant with Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors, London. Mark Richards, solicitor, is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Westminster University.
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