Conveyancing Handbook

The Conveyancing Handbook has established a reputation as the most comprehensive and reliable practice book on conveyancing available. Now in its eighth edition, the book was originally conceived, with the Law Society, to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of one of the largest areas of practice within the legal profession. Since then thousands of practitioners and students have turned to it in the knowledge that they will find the official word on conveyancing. Key features: - a focus on the practice issues facing conveyancers with a user-friendly and accessible style - specifically designed to cover and resolve the many problems encountered on a daily basis by practitioners - Honed through the combined efforts of Frances Silverman and an editorial board nominated by the Law Society's Conveyancing and Land Law Committee you can be confident that the book is comprehensive in its coverage of issues facing conveyancers - logical and sequential part-structure guides the reader through the stages within conveyancing.
Those new to conveyancing will be supported through the process - comprehensive coverage of key areas as well as peripheral matters such as advertising, property selling, costs, undertakings and remedies. Whatever issues arise the handbook will offer guidance and reference to other published works - an unprecedented list of appendices, including sections on Rules and Codes, Guidance, Mortgage Fraud, the Protocol, Standard Forms, Costs and Fees and much more - access to many cases, statutes and statutory instrumentsan extensive list of essential contacts for all conveyancers, including relevant organisations and local and national government bodies. New to this edition: - the first book to contain the Law Society's National Conveyancing Protocol 4th edition (TransAction 2001) due to launch in March 2001 - new sections covering financial services and environmental issues - Council of Mortgage Lenders Handbook - Practice Rules and Accounts Rules - Standard Commercial Property Conditions of Sale - Enquiries of Local Authority - changes to stamp duty - land Registry forms - gifts of property guidelines.