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How on earth can it be acceptable that leasheold transactions can reach conveyancers without the home purchaser having had any explanation of buying a flat - e.g leasehold v freehold.

(Ok, let's ignore Google 's availability for the last 15 years or this article really does smack of scapegoating)

No information given to the leasehold purchaser by the Government in any legislation imposed on estate agents, not by the estate agent, not by their survey, not by their mortagge company, not by the mortgage company valuation, not by their mortgage adviser, not even by the SRA or Law Society or any professional body in any advice prescribed for their regulated legal members........only now is there tfingerpointing to STILL excuse everyone else, and to let it be as late STILL as the conveyancer, and for the conveyancer to now be criticised.......who is in facty NOT thereto explain the significance of what they are buying versus alternatives, nor whether they should rethink the whole nature of their leasehold purchase and buy freehold (which won't be a flat).....but let's ignore that and just say they are...bad bad conveyancers (and only the conveyancers).

Sorry, but I do not agree, nor does the Law Society Conveyancing Handbook in any of their decades of explanatory examples of Proeprty Reports to clients.