The Chorley & District Building Society Conveyancing Panel Information

You must also comply with the terms and conditions of your The Chorley & District Building Society solicitor panel appointment.

• Solicitor client account(s) details
• Whether the firm has ever knowingly accepted instructions on transactions involving Sale and Rent Back, Back to Back, Exchange and Delayed Completion and Lease Option, Below Market Value.
• Whether the firm is able to operate in other jurisdictions
• List of all solicitors within firm
• Full career history for each licensed conveyancer including registration date with Council of Licensed Conveyancers
• The percentage of the firm’s business which is conveyancing broken down into sale
• List of all those who can sign off the Certificate Of Title
• List of all those who fund the firm, including non-lawyers if applicable
• Full career history for each solicitor including admission date to the relevant Law Society

• You have the consent of all borrowers to apply for the deeds, before making any request for deeds. We will accept your request for deeds on the understanding that you have obtained such consent. If this is not the case then you should advise our Deeds Services Department in writing when you make your request
• If you are a sole practitioner, to arrange for appropriate locum cover from our panel where necessary. Your locum must be a member of the Conveyancing panel.
• To keep us informed of the reasons for any delay in your being able to send the title deeds and documents we require to us within 3 months of completion or evidence of proof of registration within that period. (We will send reminders if the deeds have not been received but will not acknowledge receipt of deeds.)
• To quote on all communications with us relating to registration issues, whether by telephone or in writing, the panel number that we provide for each practising address and the mortgage account or application number for the mortgage concerned.
• To carry out our instructions with reasonable care and skill, ensuring that all employees carrying out mortgage work on our behalf are qualified and competent to do so

Institutional lenders, such as a building society, is a client and is entitled to instruct the solicitor or conveyancer of its choosing (who, in turn, is free to accept or refuse instructions). Therefore, if lender and borrower cannot agree which solicitor or conveyancer should represent them jointly, they would usually proceed on a separate representation basis.

In your situation, if the purchaser will not consent to the information being passed on to the lender, the solicitor must cease to act for The Chorley & District Building Society and it may well be prudent for you to cease to act for the purchaser as well. You must not inform The Chorley & District Building Society of the reason for termination of the retainer over and above the fact that a conflict has arisen. The fact that you can no longer act should alert even the most somnambulistic of lenders that something is wrong with the borrower and/or purchase. The fact that you have disinstructed yourself should not affect your The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel status.

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