Details
- Drawing on the authors' extensive experience in legal practice, this book offers a detailed and rigorous overview of both residential and commercial conveyancing making it essential reading for LPC students, trainee and qualified practitioners, and licensed conveyancers.
- Relevant sample documentation featured throughout introduces the precedent documents, forms and clauses likely to be encountered ensuring that the reader is fully prepared for life in practice.
- Key point summaries and practical checklists provide additional learning support enabling the reader to easily identify key information or quickly refresh their knowledge of essential points.
- The free Online Resource Centre provides additional examples of specimen forms, multiple choice questions and links to websites which contain further useful and relevant information.
New to this edition
- The book has been updated throughout to reflect current developments in the field, including coverage of the Help to Buy scheme and the mortgage guarantee scheme, as well as the new Green Deal loan scheme. The book has been revised in light of the new Land Registry Form and revised Protocol forms.
A Practical Approach to Conveyancing takes a pragmatic, rather than academic, approach to conveyancing. It provides practical solutions to everyday problems encountered by conveyancing practitioners wishing to offer a cost-effective and efficient service.
Written by two leading authorities in the area with over 50 years' combined legal experience, A Practical Approach to Conveyancing offers a detailed and up-to-date exposition of the key principles and procedures underpinning the conveyancing process. Combining coverage of residential and commercial conveyancing, the book provides practical guidance on each stage, fully supported by realistic sample documentation, enabling the reader to approach all aspects of a conveyancing transaction with confidence.
Now in its fifteenth edition, this book has firmly established itself as a core text supporting the study of the Legal Practice Course. This classic text is also essential reading for anyone involved in the conveyancing process, whether you are a trainee or qualified solicitor, legal executive, or a licensed conveyancer.
Readership: Suitable for students undertaking the compulsory property law and practice module as part of the Legal Practice Course. Also a useful source of reference for practitioners of property law or licensed conveyancers.
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.: Preparing for and Implementing 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 and commonholds
11.: New properties
12.: Commercial conveyancing
13.: Business tenancies and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II
Appendix 1: List of useful websites
Appendix 2: The Law Society Conveyancing Protocol
Appendix 3: Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition)
Appendix 4: Law Society's Standard Form of Contract
Apendix 5: Example of an Epitome of Title
Appendix 6: Precedent for Conveyance of Part of Unregistered Land
Appendix 7: Completion Information and Requisitions on Title
Appendix 8: Specimen Completion Statements
Appendix 9: Law Society's Code for Completion by Post (2011 edition)
Appendix 10: Standard Commercial Property Conditions (2nd edition)
Appendix 11: The CML Lenders' Handbook for England and Wales - PART 1
Appendix 12: Mortgage Deed
Appendix 13: Guide to Completing Prescribed Clauses
Appendix 14: Specimen Land Registry Official Copy Entries and Title Plan
Robert Abbey is Professor of Legal Education and Practice at the University of Westminster and Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber: Registered Land Division, formerly Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry).
Mark Richards is a Solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster. He was previously a partner in a central London solicitors firm specializing in all aspects of property law.
Review(s) from previous edition
"This is an excellent text. It provides a superb account of the conveyancing procedures. The useful precedents, practical checklists and key points mean that the confusions conveyancing can cause are quickly overcome! -Student Law Journal
"The subject is logically separated and then presented in a writing style that is clear, concise and informative." -Customer review of a previous edition, Amazon.co.uk
"The book by Abbey and Richards is an invaluable guide for students. It has stood the test of time. No less importantly, as I know from personal experience and from speaking to former students, the book is of considerable relevance to the day-to-day work of trainees and solicitors. " - Dr Klearchos A Kyriakides, Solicitor (non-practising) and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Hertfordshire
