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This is the essential guide to conveyancing law and practice. In this new edition, the authors have completely updated the previous text to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2007, soon to be an Act. The book is a user-friendly and practical guide which will ensure that all your conveyancing transactions will be compliant with the new legislation. It will provide a unique step-by-step guide to the conveyancing process as defined by the new legislation. This book will be absolutely essential reading for all of Irelands conveyancing solicitors in the changing legal landscape of 2008.
About the author
JCW Wylie acted as a consultant for many years to the Law Societies in both parts of Ireland. He was also appointed leader of the Department of Justice and Law Reform Commission Joint Project on the reform of land and conveyancing law, which resulted in the enactment of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009.
He has been an external examiner for Irish universities and the King's Inns for over 40 years. He was a director of Butterworths Ireland from 1988 to 2004 and remains a key figure in Irish legal publishing. He was Professor of Law at Cardiff University from 1971 and is the author of the leading texts on Irish property law, including Irish Land Law, Irish Conveyancing Law and Irish Landlord and Tenant Law (all published by Bloomsbury Professional).
Prof Wylie has been a consultant to A&L Goodbody since 1993.
Una Woods, author of Irish Conveyancing Law with JCW Wylie, graduated with a BCL from University College Cork in 1995. She was awarded an LLM in Human Rights and Discrimination Law by Queens University Belfast in 1996. She qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and was awarded the Findlater Scholarship by the Law Society of Ireland. She is an external examiner for the National University of Ireland, Galway. In November 2006 she was appointed by the Minister for Justice as a member of the Property Registration Authority. She is the Irish respondent to the Trento Common Core Project on the Transfer of Immoveables. She is currently a lecturer in the University of Limerick, specialising in Land Law.
Summary
This is the essential guide to conveyancing law and practice. In this new edition, the authors have completely updated the previous text to the Land and Conveyancing Law Act.