Starting out as an estate agent in 1990, Beth quickly moved into the legal world qualifying as a Legal Executive and Licenced Conveyancer. She has worked in both high street and high volume practices including as Managing Director for a top 20 conveyancing and probate law firm, before becoming a consultant working across the industry for regulated search companies, mortgage processing, panel managers and estate agents services.
Beth has been lecturing on conveyancing since 1995 for colleges, estate agents, local law societies and RICS and was Director of Wicked OWL providing on-line Conveyancing training and AML training for property professionals until 2020. More randomly she has set up a publishing company with award winning children’s author Ali Sparkes to publish a book for young adults and reluctant readers!
Beth is also Director of Delivery for the Conveyancing Association. The Conveyancing Association is a trade association representing the conveyancing community and whose members complete 30% of all conveyancing transactions each year.
The Conveyancing Association’s aim is to improve the home moving process. They produce a wealth of tools to assist conveyancers and home movers including the CA Technical Protocol, Cyber and Fraud Protocol, Leasehold Solutions Guide and most recently the Leaseholder Guide to Administration Charges.
As author of the Conveyancing Association White Paper, Beth’s research into other jurisdictions and review of the constraints in the English conveyancing process enabled her to work with other stakeholders, on behalf of the Association to develop solutions.
She is Co-Chair of the Home Buying and Selling Group, the industry group aiming to create a positive home moving process for all, and Chair of the Working Group for Reservation Agreements and also member of the Leasehold and Upfront Information Working Groups, MyIdentity.org.uk governance, NTSELAT Steering Group for the Material Information Guidance, as well as co-ordinator of the industry group for Leasehold Property Enquiry Form (LPE1), Freehold Management Enquiry Form (FME1) and Buying and Selling Property Information (BASPI) dataset.
Winner of the Modern Law Outstanding Achievement Award 2018, Beth regularly appears in print and on radio & television, including BBC1, BBC2 and BBC Wales, she also regularly chairs roundtable debates and panel discussion on all things conveyancing.