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11 February 2022 / Mandeep Bassi
Issue: 7966 / Categories: Features , Profession , Property , Conveyancing
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Book review: Conveyancing Handbook (28th edition)

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"The Conveyancing Handbook is an essential item for every practitioner specialising in property law"

General editor: Frances Silverman

Consultant editors: Russell Hewitson & Anne Rodell

Publisher: The Law Society

ISBN: 9781784461737

RRP: £110

The Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook is aimed at modern practitioners working in the increasingly complex and fast paced world of property law. The preface makes express reference to the issues being faced by practitioners during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the issues which are garnering press attention at this time, such as escalating ground rents and cladding. The handbook is clearly a modern reference book which is practical and not just academic in nature. The general editor is Frances Silverman, a solicitor who sits in the First-tier Property Tribunal, and is at the cutting edge of property law and practice.

The nature of the handbook is more modern as rather than including the full text of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) principles and codes of conduct reference is made to the web page where the latest

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