Amendments to Conveyancing Contracts Before Execution By a Purchaser

When a vendor's solicitor furnishes a contract to a purchaser's solicitor, he must expect that no amendments will have been made to the contract.

Conveyancing, Professional Guidance 01/10/1993

The view of the Professional Purposes Committee is that when a vendor's solicitor furnishes a contract to a purchaser's solicitor, he must expect that no amendments will have been made to the contract, or to any map attached to the contract, unless this fact is clearly stated in the purchaser's solicitor's covering letter returning the contracts.

Accordingly, it is a recommendation of the Professional Purposes Committee that a vendor's solicitor must be clearly alerted by the covering letter that a contract or map has been amended. Failure to so alert could be regarded by the Committee as a breach of the professional etiquette which should exist between colleagues.

Professional Purposes Committee