[Wayne Roberts]

I too would advise strongly against anybody attempting to do their own conveyancing. Big risk for a very small saving.

As a conveyancing solicitor I am not too keen on price comparison websites. Most solicitors firms provide cheap internet prices but to obtain work through price comparison sites they have to pay a referral fee, usually £50 - £75 per transaction. They do not absorb this cost but simply put their fees up on the comparison site by that amount.

If you are tempted to use a price comparison site, do so, find the solicitor you want then instruct them directly through their own web site. In most cases it will work out cheaper!

[Richard Webster]

I agree with the last post.

You also have to watch out for hidden extras that really ought to be part of the conveyancing work but which are separated out and charged for separately, for instance:

Postages, telephones and petty incidentals,
Professional Indemnity Charge
Completion of the SDLT Form
Expedition Fee for completing in less than 3 weeks from exchange (a bit unreasonable when the average is about 2 weeks)
Separate Fee for acting for lender
Separate Leasehold Fee

[eris459]

You could save on a fair amount if you choose to do the conveyancing yourself. It's claimed that all you need do is to be able to fill in the right forms - and be prepared to get bored.

[Richard Webster]

Ugg boots will be very useful if you want to do your own conveyancing and you will also need to know about the following if you wnat to do your own conveyancing, essential vital information:

—(1) These Rules may be cited as the General Chiropractic Council (Constitution of the Statutory Committees) Rules 2009 and shall come into force on 9th February 2009.

(2) In these Rules—

“the Act” means the Chiropractors Act 1994;
“final outcome”, in relation to any proceedings where there are rights of appeal, means the outcome of the proceedings—
(a)once the period for bringing an appeal has expired without an appeal being brought; or
(b)if an appeal is brought in accordance with those rights, once those rights have been exhausted;
“lay person” means a person who—
(a)is not and never has been a registered chiropractor; and
(b)does not hold qualifications which would entitle them to apply for registration under the Act;
“licensing body” means any body, other than the General Council, anywhere in the world that licenses or regulates any profession;
“ordinary member”, in relation to a statutory committee, means a member of that committee who is not a co-opted member; and
“spent conviction” means—
(a)in relation to a conviction in a court in Great Britain, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(2); or
(b)in relation to a conviction by a court in Northern Ireland, a conviction that is a spent conviction for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(3).

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