Subjects:

Conveyancing

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, including tenanted properties

13. Business tenancies and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Pt II

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.

This ninth edition contains precedent documents, clauses, and forms that provide the blueprint for highly effective procedural structures. Checklists and key point summaries have been added throughout the text to make the style more accessible. Detailed information on Home Information Packs ensures that the reader is kept up to date with this new legislation, and the text also considers the impact of the new Solicitors' Code of Conduct, due to come into force on 1 July 2007. Detailed explanations of the law are accompanied by a number of practical suggestions to help save time and money.

The book has established itself as a core text on the Legal Practice Course for students wishing to have a more applied overview of property law and practice. The book is also essential reading for solicitors, their support staff, trainee solicitors, licensed conveyancers, legal executives and others involved or interested in the conveyancing process.

New to this edition:-

• Coverage of Home Information Packs has been added to the ninth edition, ensuring that the reader is fully informed about this new legislation, into force 1 June 2007
• The ninth edition covers the new conduct rules that come into force on 1 July 2007. Relevant parts of the appendices will also be updated to reflect these new regulations
• The Online Resource Centre features diagrams from the book in a format which allow lecturers to dowload them for use in lectures or other teaching materials