Abbey, Robert M

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Professor of Legal Education and Practice

Applied Legal Studies

abbeyr@wmin.ac.uk

Rm 3.02, 4 Little Titchfield Street

+44 (0)20 7911 5000 Ext.2528

+44 (0)20 7911 5844

 R.Abbey
 

Responsibilities

  • School of Law Learning and Teaching Director
  • Professor of Legal Education and Practice

 

Teaching

  • LPC Probate and Administration
  • LPC Property Law and Practice
  • LPC Commercial Property
  • LPC Professional Conduct
  • LPC Accounts
  • LPC Legal skills - interviewing and advising
  • LPC Legal Skills - writing and drafting
  • LPC Information technology
  • LPC Legal Skills - practical legal research
  • GDL (CPE) Land Law
  • GDL (CPE) Company Law
  • LLB Land Law

 

Research Interests

  • Conveyancing
  • Land Law
  • IT and the Legal Profession

 

Biography

Professor Robert Abbey, is a Senior Academic at the University of Westminster, The Department of Applied Legal Studies.
 
He joined the school in 1992 and is now the Law School Teaching and Learning Coordinator with teaching responsibilities on both the Legal Practice Course and the Graduate Diploma in Law.
 
In addition to his teaching commitments, his professional experience includes being consultant solicitor with Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors in commercial and residential conveyancing, wills trusts and probate. Until 1992, he was previously and Equity partner with Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors and, until 1984, a Conveyancing and Probate equity partner with Cecil Altman & Co. Solicitors.
 
Robert is presently a Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and an Appointed Legal Practice Course assessor for the Law Society having been involved in over 30 assessment visits to LPC providers since 1992. He was until recently a Chief External Examiner for Property Law and Practice for the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
 

Select/ Recent Publications

  • Conveyancing, Law Q&A, Blackstone Press Ltd. London, with Mark Richards, Second Edition March 1999 ISBN 185431 920 5
  • Wills Probate and Administration, Law, Q&A, Oxford University Press formerly Blackstone Press Ltd. London, February 1997 ISBN1 85431 607 9
  • A Practical Approach to Conveyancing, Oxford University Press formerly Blackstone Press Ltd. with Mark Richards, Eleveneth Edition August 2009 ISBN 0-19-928945-5
  • A Practical Approach to Conveyancing, Oxford University Press formerly Blackstone Press Ltd. with Mark Richards, First Indian Edition, June 2000 ISBN 81-7534-159-
  • A Practical approach to Commercial Conveyancing and Property, Oxford University Press formerly Blackstone Press Ltd. with Mark Richards, Fourth edition February 2009 ISBN0-19-929150-0
  • A Guide to the Land Registration Act 2002 Oxford University Press with Mark Richards, August 2002 ISBN 0-19-925796-5
  • Companion to Property Law and Practice Oxford University Press with Mark Richards, June 2004 ISBN 0-19-927031-7, reprinted  June 2006
  • Property Law Handbook Oxford University Press with Mark Richards, Second Edition, August 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-923389-2