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Corporate Members 2020

3PB Albion Chambers Ashfords Barcan + Kirby Burges Salmon Clarke Willmott Cooke Painter Ltd Clyde & Co DAC Beachcroft Devereux & Co Enterprise Chambers The Family Law Practice Foot Anstey (including Enable Law) Fussell Wright Gregg Latchams Ltd Guildhall Chambers Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Kelcey & Hall Lyons Davidson Marc White & Co Meade King Michelmores LLP MS Rubric Osborne Clarke … more

BLS features in Bristol Post oldest thriving companies in Bristol

Excerpt from the article: How Bristol’s oldest companies are still thriving after more than 100 years in business They include the city’s last-surviving chocolate maker a wine merchant and a tannery. Why do some companies struggle to survive beyond a year while others flourish for hundreds? Although more than 90 per cent of small companies in Britain will survive one … more

No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire

Please note that the BLS office is shut to members at present as we continue to work from home during the pandemic. We can be contacted on info@bristollawsociety.com. In the meantime, our office is now operating as the Bristol Nightingale Court and accordingly, we are unable to hire out our facilities until further notice. (Oct 2020) Bristol Law Society’s suite … more

Proposed changes to the Con29 and Con29O enquiries

The Law Society is consulting on proposed changes to the Con29 and Con29O enquiry forms.

Local authority searches are a vital part of the conveyancing process and give buyers important information about matters affecting a property that are registered or recorded with the local authority.

The Con29 and Con29O forms were developed many years ago to standardise the questions that solicitors asked local authorities.

This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the Con29 and Con29O enquiries with the aim of producing updated Con29 and Con29O forms. Some of the proposed changes result from new issues, such as assets of community value, the community infrastructure levy and the Green Deal. Other proposed amendments aim to take account of recent legislative changes such as the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013.

Preliminary negotiations regarding the proposed changes have taken place with the Local Land Charges Institute and Local Government Association. The results of those discussions are set out in the draft revised forms that accompany the consultation. We are now seeking the views of solicitors, conveyancers, local authorities, search companies and other stakeholders on the proposed changes to the forms.

The Law Society also proposes that for clarity, the Con29 and Con29O enquiries are displayed with the relevant answers when returned.

The consultation will close on 1 August 2013.