A Practical Approach to Conveyancing

Robert Abbey is Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), previously Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, and formerly Professor of Legal Education and Practice, University of Westminster. 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.

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: Additional chapter
Appendix 2: List of useful websites
Appendix 3: The Law Society conveyancing protocol
Appendix 4: Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition) (National Conditions of Sale, 25th edition, Law Society's Conditions of Sale 2011
Appendix 5: The Law Society's Standard Form of Contract
Appendix 6: Example of an Epitome of Title
Appendix 7: Precedent for Conveyance of Part of Unregistered Land
Appendix 8: Completion Information and Requisitions on Title
Appendix 9: Specimen Financial or Completion Statements
Appendix 10: Law Society's Code for Completion by Post (2011 edition)
Appendix 11: Standard Commercial Property Conditions (2nd edition)
Appendix 12: The CML Lenders' Handbook for England and Wales PART 1
Appendix 13: Mortgage Deed
Appendix 14: Guide to Completing Prescribed Clauses Text That Must Be Included
Appendix 15: Specimen Land Registry Official Copy Entries and Title Plan