Solicitors Can Make Conveyancing Mistakes

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au An Appeal Court has ruled that a father and his daughter validly escaped a developer�s option to buy their property because of a solicitor�s slackness over the Christmas-New Year holiday period. When Maitland Murray and daughter Jacqueline bought a bungalow in Birmingham, England, from pension fund trustees one of the sale terms gave the trustees, who owned adjoining playing fields, an option to re-purchase...(read more)

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[Source: Australian Real Estate Blog]