Avoiding Land Registry Requisitions - What Conveyancers Need to Know

Introduction

Once completion has taken place you may think all you need to do is submit your Land Registry application and deal with the next client’s transaction.

However, conveyancing is never so simple, and it may well be that you receive requisitions from the Land Registry which you have some difficulty in satisfying or cannot satisfy at all. Then can follow the threat of cancellation and loss of priority which can mean potential claims by your client, their lender and even potentially your professional regulator.

It is timely therefore to revise the rules and look at advice from the Land Registry, which may help you to avoid such problems.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• A review and explanation of Land Registry requirements, how and when they raise requisitions and how you ought to respond to them
• Powers of attorney
• Searches in the Land Charges Register
• Where there are joint owners - taking full instructions and never rely on assumptions Day & Another v Day (2013)
• Joint Ownership - severance Lee v Lee [2018]
• Problems around execution
• Leases, plans, charges and discharge
• Companies, consents and certificates
• Amendments, missing deeds and early completion
• Forms, prescribed clauses and SDLT
• Time limits, extensions and liability
• The Registration Gap - Baker v Craggs [2018]
• Conclusiveness of the Register - a reason requisitions are raised and thus avoiding claims for rectification Dhillon v Barclays Bank [2019]
• Conveyancing Protocol 2019 - on registration
• Land Registry Guidance - Avoidable and Unavoidable Requisitions
• Identity verification and a look at the Land Registry checklist - what to do before submitting your application

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Tuesday 8th September 2026

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