Sarah Dwight

Solicitor

I qualified as a solicitor in 1990, and throughout my career, I have been focussed on trying to make the house moving experience better for all those involved. I established my own practice, dealing exclusively with residential conveyancing in April 2000 and have seen many changes in how conveyancing is done together with changes in the market. Even with all of these changes over the years, my core belief remains that solicitors are at the heart of the house moving process and have a crucial role in making sure that the public receive good advice at a stressful time. For the last ten years, I have been a member of the Law Society Conveyancing and Land Law Committee, heading the Residential Property sub group. I have been involved in the redrafting of the Protocol Forms (Fittings and Contents form and Property Information Form) and led the group which drafted the new edition of the Protocol. I am the joint author of the CQS Tool Kit . I am an Editor of the Law Society Conveyancing Handbook. All of this means that I am aware of law and procedure within the conveyancing procedure and have access to the most up to date regulations and requirements. I have spoken at many Law Society conferences and am a regular contributor to the Law Society Property Section Property in Practice magazine. I have been quoted in articles in The Times, The Financial Times, and other media . Finally, I sit on the Government Home Buying and Selling Group which is reviewing the way in which house buying is carried out. I lead the Education Group for the Home Buying and Selling Group which writes the How to Buy and How to Sell Guides. This means that I consider what the public (YOU!!) need to know when moving house .