Precedents
In this section, you can find a range of recommended standard precedents for practice for your use and convenience. Precedents may also be under a specific Committee.
Precedents by practice area
Click on the links below to see free downloadable precedents for particular areas of practice. Some precedents are also available in hard-copy format under Buy Publications.
Over 800 precedents are also available to purchase from the Law Society Library collection. To request a specific precedent not shown here, contact the Library team.
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Conveyancing
- Employment Law
- Family Law
- Personal Injuries
- Practice management and costs
- Wills, Probate, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
If you do not see a precedent here, check the relevant Committee section or contact the Law Society Library.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Conveyancing
- Accountable Trust Receipt - Law Society Approved form
- Building Estate Conveyance
- Building Estate Transfer
- Certificates of Compliance (2018): planning and 2014 building regulations:
- Certificates of Compliance (2010):
- Certificate of Title Documentation (2011 Edition)
- Certificate of Title Documentation (2009 Edition) - Booklet
- Commercial mortgage lending
- Conditions of Sale 2023 (Revised Edition) - for transactions commencing on or after 16 April 2024
- Completion Notices: vendor
- Vendor completion notice - version for use with Conditions of Sale 2023 revised edition
- Vendor completion notice - March 2019 version for use with Conditions of Sale 2019 edition
- Completion Notices: purchaser
- Purchaser completion notice - version for use with Conditions of Sale 2023 revised edition
- Purchaser Completion notice - March 2019 version for use
- with Conditions of Sale 2019 edition
- Conditions of Sale 2023 Edition - for transactions commencing on or after 1 November 2023.
- Conditions of Sale 2019 Edition - for transactions commencing on or after 1 January 2019:
- Delays - Sample Letters To Lenders For Resolving Delays In Furnishing Matters To Solicitors As Agreed Under The Certificate Of Title System For Residential Mortgage Lending (2009 Edition)
- Family Law Declarations
- Declaration of spouses that property is a family home
- Declaration of spouses that property is not a family home or a shared home
- Declaration of spouses that site without a building is not a family home or a shared home
- Declaration of spouses that property is a family home - owned by one of them
- Declaration of Surviving spouse that property is not a family home or a shared home
- Declaration that property is not a family home or a shared home – spouses separated
- Declaration of single person that property is not a family home or a shared home
- Declaration of single person that property is not a family home or a shared home - nullity
- Declaration of single person that property is not a family home or a shared home - divorce
- Declaration of civil partners that property is a shared home
- Declaration of civil partners that property is not a shared home or a family home
- Declaration of civil partners that site without a building is not a shared home or a family home
- Declaration of civil partners that property is a shared home - owned by one of them
- Declaration of surviving civil partner that property is not a shared home or a family home
- Declaration of civil partners that property is a shared home - previous civil partnership of one of them dissolved
- Declaration of single person that property is not a shared home or a family home - nullity
- Declaration of single person that property is not a shared home or a family home - previous civil partnership dissolved
- Declaration of current or former cohabitants that property is not a family home or a shared home - owned jointly
- Declaration of current or former cohabitants that property is not a family home or a shared home - owned by one of them
- Declaration of surviving cohabitant that property is not a family home or a shared home
- Declaration of qualified cohabitant that property is not a family home or a shared home - court order granted
- Declaration of legal personal representative that property is not a family home or a shared home
- Declaration that property is not a family home or a shared home - owned by a company and full commercial use
- Composite declaration for the purposes of Section 54 (1) (B) Family Law Act 1995 and Section 28 (11) (b) Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010
- Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011:
- Practice Note - November 2015
- Precedent OMC Constitution - updated July 2016
- Precedent Developer – OMC Agreement
- Precedent Pre-Contract Enquiries - Word
- Precedent Pre-Contract Enquiries - PDF
- Declaration under Section 11 or Section 12 of Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011
- Precedent Transfers of Common Areas:
- Section 3 (1) (b) Transfer - where no residential unit sold prior to 1 April 2011
- Section 4 Transfer - where any residential unit was sold before 1 April 2011
- Section 5 Transfers - where not less than 80% of residential units were sold prior to 1 April 2011 (two types):
- Pre-contract enquiries - Non-Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 (MUDS) Precedents - June 2015
- Pre-contract questionnaires and sample letter - 2017 edition:
- Pre-contract VAT enquiries and VAT Special Condition 3 - 2014
- Download the Pre-Contract VAT Enquiries (February 2014 Edition)
- View the new VAT Special Condition 3 (February 2014 Edition)
- See the February 2014 practice note
- Renunciation Pursuant to Section 17 of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1980 as Amended by Section 47 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008
- Renunciation under S.191 of Residential Tenancies Act 2004
- Requisitions on Title - 2019 (Revised) Edition - for transactions commencing on or after 1 January 2021:
- Requisitions on Title - 2019 (Revised) Edition (fillable pdf - save to desktop before completing)
- Explanatory Memorandum to Requisitions on Title 2019 (Revised) Edition
- Retention of Units in Apartment Development by Developer:
- Sales of Property where NAMA is chargeholder - 2013
- Section 72 Declaration - September 2013
- Section 238 Companies Act 2014:
- Speed up your house sale - checklist
- Stamp Duty - Record of Clients' Instructions on Stamp Duty - November 2015
- Surveys - Client Memo on Surveys
- Teagasc: For the latest versions of the Teagasc Farm Partnership Agreement and On-Farm Agreement , please visit the Teagasc website.
- VAT
Employment Law
- Precedent Settlement Agreement
- Template Contract of Employment
- Sample Grievance Policy
- Sample Disciplinary Policy
- Sample Maternity Protection Policy
- Sample Parental Leave Policy
- Sample Health and Safety Policy
Family Law
- Pension Adjustment Order Template (includes explanatory memorandum)
- Precedent Cohabitation Agreement
Personal injuries
Practice management and costs
- Changes to Statutory Declarations 2008 - precedent standard forms of jurat
- Legal Costs - precedent letters:
- Section 150 Precedent Letters (updated July 2021)
- Partnership Agreement
- Terms & Conditions of Business
See Business Hub for other related precedents
Wills, Probate, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
- Enduring Power Of Attorney Forms. For details of the EPA Generator, visit the Probate Committee area.
Use of precedents
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