Conveyancing Handbook
16th edition

Editors: General Editor: Frances Silverman, Consultant Editors: Annette Goss, Russell Hewitson, Peter Reekie, Anne Rodell and Michael Taylor

Overview

The Conveyancing Handbook has been an essential point of reference for conveyancers for 15 years. Updated annually, it offers authoritative guidance, comprehensive treatment of current practice, and user-friendly procedural checklists.

Thorough and practical, the handbook can save you and your firm valuable time by helping to answer those everyday conveyancing related queries.

The 16th edition of this invaluable work has been fully updated to take account of recent developments, including:

• the new and revised Law Society TransAction forms published in March 2009
• amendments to the Home Information Pack Regulations which took effect on 1 April 2009
• changes to Land Registry forms made in October 2008 and the proposed introduction of the Land Registry's 'early completion' policy
• the Land Registration Fee Order 2009
• the latest Practice Notes from the Law Society (including: house competitions, identity evidence for the Land Registry)
• changes to the Solicitors Code of Conduct and SRA's warning cards
• provisions made by the Legal Services Act 2007.

The appendix includes essential extracts from the Law Society's range of Practice Notes, and the SRA's guidance to Rule 3 of the Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2007.