The Brighton conveyancing firm that I appointed last week on my house acquisition in Brighton have suddenly shut down. They were on acting for me because I needed a solicitor on the RBS conveyancing panel and my previous Brighton lawyer was not. I paid them money on account. What do I do now?

If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they can let the sellers know that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You should appoint new lawyers that are on the RBS conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money, it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new solicitors may be able to help.

Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my property are lost. The conveyancers who dealt with the conveyancing in Brighton 4 years ago are no longer around. What do I do?

Assuming the title is registered the details of your ownership will be retained by the Land Registry under a Title Number. It is easy to conduct a search at the Land Registry, find your property and order up to date copies of the Registered Entries for less than a fiver. Where the property is Leasehold then the Land Registry will also normally hold a file duplicate of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be obtained for £20 inclusive of VAT.

I am downsizing from my home. My past lawyers have shut. I would be grateful for any recommendation of a conveyancing firm. I happen to live in Brighton if that makes a difference.

You should use our search tool to help you find a solicitor for your conveyancing in Brighton. We have connected thousands of home buyers and sellers with lender approved solicitors to ensure that the legalities of their house move goes with a minimum of fuss.

I need to appoint a conveyancing solicitor for leasehold conveyancing in Brighton. I've chance upon a site which seems to have the ideal offering If it is possible to get all the legals done via phone that would be ideal. Do I need to be concerned? What should out be looking out for?

As usual with these online conveyancers you need to read ALL the small print - did you notice the extra charge for dealing with the mortgage?

My husband and I are disposing of a Brighton flat left to us some years ago in 2010. I have over twenty years conveyancing knowledge and, although retired, see no reason not to conduct my own legal work. The buyer's property lawyer has informed me that their Lenders will not allow us to do our own conveyancing mandating that the funds to be sent to a solicitor's bank account.

Lending instructions to conveyancers from all CML members specify that If the vendor does not have legal representation the purchaser’s lawyers should check whether the lender needs to be notified so that a decision can be made if they are willing to move forward.