• Legal structure reviews – a review of your governing documents and property deeds confirming how many charities there are, the legal liabilities and responsibilities of officers and trustees and options for consolidation and limitation of liability
• Conveyancing of properties to new legal structures following a church or charity restructure
• Charity formation including advice on choosing the most suitable legal structure and registration at the Charity Commission
• Incorporation of unincorporated legal entities
• Legal documentation for appointment and removal trustees and registration of the appointments at the Land Registry
• Advice on the power of charities to make donations of property or funds to other charities
• Applications to the Charity Commission for release of restricted funds
• First registration of property at the Land Registry
• Land Registry applications to acquire land by adverse possession, i.e. you have been using the land as if it is yours for at least ten years (or 12 in the case of unregistered land), but the land is actually registered to someone else or is unregistered and you don’t have any documents to prove that you own it
• Land Registry applications to register the acquisition of rights of way by long use
• Deeds to grant new rights of way and other easements*
• Lease grants*

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_{*Note on property work: as a freelance solicitor I can deal with property conveyancing, but I’m not able to hold client funds, which in practice means that I won’t normally be able to deal with the sale or purchase of properties or rights in properties, but I can deal with most matters where there is no upfront financial consideration.}