Lawyers Costs and Fees: Conveyancing Fees and Duties Book

This 34th edition of Lawyers Costs and Fees: Conveyancing Fees and Duties is one of a series of booklets which provide accessible, up-to-date scales of UK costs and fees in a practical and convenient format. Contents include: 1. Stamp Duty Land Tax - 1.1 Introduction - 1.2 HM Revenue & Customs publications - 1.3 General information - 1.4 "Chargeable consideration" - 1.5 "Disadvantaged Area Relief" and other reliefs and exemptions - 1.6 Rates of SDLT on the "chargeable consideration" - 1.7 SDLT on the grant of a lease - 2. Land Registry - 2.1 Land Registry Offices - 2.2 Land Registry "Practice Guides" - 2.3 Application and Search Forms - 2.4 Land Registry Fees - 2.5 Land Charges Department - 3 Local land charges - searches and enquiries (including a list of authorities) - 4. Drainage and Water searches - 5. Commons Registration search - 6. Environmental searches and reports - 7. Coal mining searches and reports - 8. Tin and copper mining searches in parts of South West England - 9. China Clay searches - 10. Random searches - 11. Cheshire brine subsidence searches - 12. Companies House - 13. Gypsum mining - 14. Land Registry Direct - 15. The National Land Information Service ("NLIS") - 16. Information available from "English Heritage" - 17. London underground searches - 18. Ordnance Survey information - 19. Chancel repair - 20. Rates of interest under s 32 Land Compensation Act 1961 - 21. Law Society interest rates - 22. Other telephone numbersRead More