A Practical Approach to Conveyancing

• 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

• Updated and expanded coverage of professional conduct issues in light of the new SRA Handbook and Code of Conduct 2011, including a summary of key points in chapter 2
• Re-insertion of the CML Lender's Handbook in the appendices, and enhanced discussion of the document in the text
• New flowchart illustrating the progression of a conveyancing transaction
• More details on undertakings, especially as they operate when a solicitor deals with an ABS under the Legal Services Act
• Free and direct access to the online resources for Abbey & Richards' Property Law Handbook, including full documentation for two case studies (one residential and one commercial), interactive timelines, a web chapter on commonhold, and additional testing and revision resources

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.

Robert Abbey, Professor of Legal Education and Practice, University of Westminster, and Mark Richards, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster

Robert Abbey is Professor of Legal Education and Practice at the University of Westminster and a Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry. He is also the Solicitors Regulation Authority's Chief External Examiner in Property Law and Practice.

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

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 and commonholds
11.: New properties
12.: Commercial conveyancing
13.: Business tenancies and the Landlord and Tenact 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