Companion to Property Law and Practice A Guide to Assessment

This Companion for the LPC core subject of Property Law & Practice (formerly known as Conveyancing) provides a clear and logical progression through the main problems arising in a conveyancing transaction, culminating in an examination of the process as a whole. Straddling commercial and high-street approaches to the subject, it offers full coverage of all the elements of commonhold, leasehold, and commercial conveyancing processes.

This Companion to the LPC has been designed to help students through the demanding subject of Property Law & Practice. It provides a clear and logical progression through the main problems arising in a conveyancing transaction, culminating in an examination of the process as a whole. Straddling commercial and high-street approaches to the subject, it offers full coverage of all the elements of freehold commonhold, leasehold, and commercial conveyancing processes. Looking in detail at specific topics it uses charts, illustrations, and boxed inserts to clarify any particular points of difficulty and to consolidate students' knowledge. It offers guidance on good assessment practice, as well as containing a number of multiple-choice, short answer and transactional questions. It contains full reference to relevant web sites and wider reading especially from practitioner texts and incorporates relevant and appropriate elements of both skills and pervasive subjects (e.g. writing and drafting), as well as highlighting a number of important professional conduct matters. COMPANION WEB SITE This title features a Online Resource Centre specifically created to work alongside the text; providing an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for students and lecturers. Includes: updated legislation, extra learning resources and revision information, annotated web links to legal resources, and additional forms not included in the book.

1 - Introduction to the book and its format
2 - Registered and unregistered conveyancing; taking instructions
3 - The draft contract
4 - Pre- contract searches, enquiries and town and country planning
5 - Deducting and investigating title
6 - Exchange of contracts
7 - The purchase deed and mortgage
8 - Pre-completion procedures and completion
9 - Post completion procedures; delays and remedies
10 - Leaseholds and commonhold
11 - Commercial conveyancing and property
12 - New properties
13 - Putting it all together, the process as a whole

Robert Abbey is Director of Legal Practice at Westminster and has been involved with the LPC since its introduction in 1993. He is also the Law Society's Chief External Examiner in Property Law and Practice. He has previously been a solicitor in the field of Conveyancing and remains a consultant solicitor. Mark Richards has taught Conveyancing since 1993 as well as the LPC elective of Commercial Property. He has previouly been a solicitor, working in the field of Conveyancing.