Land Registration, Conveyancing and Property Markets: The Edwards Report, June 2001

Discussion of the main issues considered by a Report published by the Lord Chancellor on 26 June 2001 making far-reaching proposals for completing the Land Register, registration of leases, electronic property searches, certificates, deeds, transfers and settlements, re-engineering of the national processes for buying and selling houses, promoting transparent property markets, independent adjudication of property disputes, new specialist advisory services and reform of the national bankruptcy index. Article by Andrew Edwards, formerly a deputy Secretary at HM. Treasury and author of the Report. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London