Bank of Ireland Mortgages Conveyancing Panel Information

The Council of Mortgage Lenders do not keep historic copies of the Part 2's pre-December 2010. The CML recommend you make a request of Bank of Ireland Mortgages directly.

Criteria differ from lender to lender. We do not hold specific requirements relating to the questions raised as part of the application to be on the Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel. Typically lenders need to have full knowledge of a firm including (but not limited to):

Full complaints history for each conveyancing solicitor

Number of partners per branch of the firm

List of fee-earners who are foreign qualified

Full career history for each licensed conveyancer including registration date with Council of Licensed Conveyancers

Automated alerting to inform lenders when there is a fundamental change to the firm (e.g. change of name)

and Conveyancing Quality Scheme

List of all those who can sign off the Certificate Of Title

List of all Licensed Conveyancers within firm

The percentage of the firm’s business which is conveyancing (broken down into sale

Whether the firm has ever applied for accreditation and the outcome of the application

In the same way that there is a unique Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel most building societies, operate a conveyancing panel for solicitors and other conveyancers that the lender will instruct. Terms and Conditions and criteria for inclusion on a building society conveyancing panel vary from lender-to-lender. Having CQS accreditation may be a requirement. Institutional lenders, such as a building society, is a client and is entitled to instruct the solicitor or conveyancer of its choosing (who, in turn, is free to accept or refuse instructions). Therefore, if lender and borrower cannot agree which solicitor or conveyancer should represent them jointly, they would usually proceed on a separate representation basis. The BSA have not published the equivalent of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook Part 3s.

The best placed professionals to answer this question are your insurance brokers. The chances are that on the basis that you have not been removed for fraud or negligence reasons that there will be little or no impact. The main reason why a firm would be removed off of a lender panel is due to low volume of conveyancing cases although there may be a number of criteria for Bank of Ireland Mortgages solicitor panel membership. Please remember that it is always important that you complete your insurance forms accurately.

You need to contact Bank of Ireland Mortgages to obtain standard documents. The CML Handbook incorporates an explicit question for banks to reveal who to contact to obtain standard documents. Bank of Ireland Mortgages in their Part 2’s state: Don’t forget to quote the firm’s Bank of Ireland Mortgages conveyancing panel number.