Terms of use
These terms apply to myconveyancinglawyer.com.au. This website publishes general information about conveyancing and property transactions in New South Wales. If you do not accept these terms, please do not use the site.
General information, not legal advice. This page sets out how the law generally applies. It does not take account of your circumstances, and you should get advice about your own situation before acting on it. The official sources this page is written from are listed on it; where they differ from anything here, they are the authority.
Last updated: 23 September 2026
Most of what follows exists to make one thing unambiguous: reading this website does not make us your lawyers, and nothing here is advice about your contract.
That is not a disclaimer written to avoid responsibility. A conveyance turns on particulars — what your contract says, what was attached to it, when you exchanged, what your lender has actually agreed to — and a page written for everyone cannot know any of them.
General information, not legal advice
My Conveyancing Lawyer is an informational website. Legal services offered through this website are provided by Jameson Law, and “we” and “us” in these terms mean that firm.
Everything on this site is general information about conveyancing and property law in New South Wales. It is not advice, it is not a substitute for advice about your circumstances, and it is not an offer to act for you.
Where a page states a rule, it lists the official sources it relies on. Those sources are the authority and this site is not. If the two ever differ, the official source is right.
Working out how the law applies to you takes a conversation about your contract. How it works sets out what that involves, and our guides are written to help you prepare for it, not to replace it.
Never work out a deadline from this website. If you have exchanged contracts, the dates that matter come from your own contract and from the legislation, not from a general page.
Accuracy and currency
Property law in New South Wales changes. The disclosure requirements, the prescribed documents, the cooling-off provisions, duty rates and the first home buyer thresholds have all been amended in recent years, and a page that was accurate when it was written may not be accurate when you read it.
Where a page carries a review date, treat that date as the limit of what we are telling you. It means the page matched the official sources on that day. It does not promise the page still matches them today. No page here is a substitute for checking the official source.
Some things are deliberately left off this site because publishing them invites reliance on a number that moves. There is no fee figure anywhere on this site. There is no cooling-off period expressed in days, no proportion forfeited on rescission, no transfer duty rate and no first home buyer threshold. Every one of those is set outside this website and revised from time to time, so we point you to the body that publishes the current figure instead of printing one that will be wrong.
- Check current transfer duty rates, exemptions and first home buyer eligibility with Revenue NSW.
- Check the cooling-off period, and whether one applies at all, against your own contract and the NSW Government's contracts and deposits page.
- Check title, plan and registration information with NSW Land Registry Services.
- Check that anyone advising you holds a current practising certificate, on the Law Society of New South Wales register of solicitors.
Time limits in a conveyance are short and some of them cannot be extended. Cooling off, rescission where a prescribed document was not attached, and the rights that follow a notice about a change in an off-the-plan contract all run on periods measured in days. Act on your own documents and on advice, not on anything written here.
When we become your lawyers, and when we do not
Reading this site does not create a lawyer and client relationship. Neither does sending the enquiry form, and neither does the reply you receive to it.
The relationship begins when three things have happened: we have run a conflict check and found nothing that prevents us acting, we have agreed to act for you, and you have signed the costs agreement we send you. Until that last step, we are not your lawyers, whatever has been discussed in the meantime.
Costs are dealt with in writing before work starts. Costs disclosure by a law practice in New South Wales is governed by the Legal Profession Uniform Law, which requires the practice to tell you in writing how its legal costs will be calculated and what it estimates the total will be. The costs agreement is a separate document, and you do not have to sign it the day it reaches you. The Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner publishes fact sheets explaining what a disclosure has to contain and what you can do if you disagree with a bill.
How it works describes the sequence in more detail, including what happens if the conflict check means we cannot act, and request a quote sets out what a written quote should cover.
What you send us before we act
Keep a first enquiry short. Tell us which property it is, whether you are buying or selling, and whether any date is already running. That is usually enough for us to say whether we can help and what the next step would be.
Material you send before we act for you may not attract legal professional privilege. We also cannot promise to hold it in confidence if it turns out we already act for someone on the other side of your transaction, which is what the conflict check exists to find out. In property that happens more often than people expect.
Do not send identity documents or bank details with a first enquiry, and do not attach them to the form. How information is handled once we do hold it is set out in the privacy policy. If you would rather ask a question before sending anything at all, contact lists the ways to reach the practice.
Payment redirection fraud targets property settlements specifically. We will never tell you by email alone that our account details have changed. Confirm any account details by telephone, on a number you already had, before you transfer money.
Who may carry out conveyancing
In New South Wales both an Australian legal practitioner and a licensed conveyancer may carry out conveyancing, and a residential contract for sale must be prepared by one of them before a property can be offered for sale.
They are regulated differently. Solicitors practise under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and hold practising certificates issued by the Law Society of New South Wales; complaints about them go to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner. Licensed conveyancers are licensed under a separate scheme, and their licences are searchable through the NSW Government’s property professionals pages.
Which of those you are dealing with matters if something goes wrong, and it also matters for what advice you can be given. A licensed conveyancer’s work is confined to the transaction. Complaints explains where a complaint about legal work goes, and about explains how to check a practising certificate.
Links to other sites
This site links to Australian government, legal regulator and land registry pages, because those bodies are the authority for what they publish. We do not control them, we cannot guarantee a link still works, and we are not responsible for what sits at the other end of it.
If a link has moved, search the same body’s own site rather than relying on a copy of the page somewhere else. Property information reproduced on third-party sites goes out of date quietly, and a superseded requirement reads exactly like a current one.
A link is not an endorsement. No commercial site, comparison service or other law firm is used as a source anywhere on this website.
Copyright
Copyright in the text, layout and design of this site is owned by Jameson Law or its licensors, and is protected by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
You are welcome to read these pages, print them and share them for your own use, and to quote a short passage with a link back. Please do not republish a page in full, reuse the copy on another site, or present this material as someone else’s work.
Photographs and icons may be licensed from third parties and remain subject to the licences they came with. Material reproduced from an Australian government source remains subject to the terms set by the body that published it.
Availability, and what we are responsible for
We take care with what is published here and we work from official sources. We do not warrant that the site is free of error, that it is complete, or that it will be available without interruption.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from reliance on the general information published on this site. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies a right or guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Jameson Law’s liability is limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. A scheme of that kind limits the occupational liability of participating solicitors for the legal services they provide, where the solicitor meets the requirements of the scheme instrument. It is created by statute rather than by these terms, and it is about legal services, not about a website.
Which law applies, and changes to these terms
These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales, and the courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute about them.
We may change these terms. The version on this page is the current one, and the date shown at the top is when it last changed. If any part of them cannot be enforced, the rest continues to apply.
If a part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, accessibility explains the standard the site is built to and how to report a barrier. We would rather hear about it than have you give up on the page.
How to reach the practice
These are the published contact details for the practice that provides the legal services offered through this website.
(02) 8806 0866
My Conveyancing Lawyer is an informational website about conveyancing in New South Wales. Legal services offered through it are provided by Jameson Law.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Official sources
- Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Federal Register of Legislation
- Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) — the Australian Consumer Law is Schedule 2
- Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW), NSW legislation
- Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), NSW legislation
- Conveyancing (Sale of Land) Regulation 2022 (NSW), NSW legislation
- Law Society of NSW — Register of Solicitors
- Law Society of NSW — Professional Standards Scheme
- Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner — fact sheets on costs and hiring a lawyer
- Revenue NSW — Transfer duty
- NSW Government — Contracts and deposits when buying property in NSW
- NSW Land Registry Services