Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2024

Introduction

Concentrating primarily on changes over the last 12 months, this in-person seminar is ideal for the busy conveyancer; it is very practical and relevant to your day-to-day practice.

Some of the changes are small and could easily 'sneak up on you'. Others can be more significant for the way you carry out your professional responsibilities.

As a busy conveyancer you need to keep up to date with changes in practice as well as changes in the law.

The course content is liable to change if there are any important new developments in this area of the law.

What You Will Learn

• SDLT update, including non-residential purchases, multiple dwelling relief claims
• Case in which solicitor’s AML checks were wholly inadequate
• The latest on Japanese knotweed, the RICS professional standard
• Selective updates to land registry practice guides, including priority of restrictions, voluntary lease extensions, powers of attorney
• New builds: The latest developments on the new Ombudsman, plot exceeded the permitted size, pitfalls of buyer funded developments
• The latest on proposals to abolish assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 notices - what about ground 8 possession claims?
• The right to shared ownership, rent reviews
• Leasehold: key update on fire safety laws affecting blocks of flats and ground rents, the latest version of the BSA Landlord Certificate, BSA design and construction rules, holiday lets
• Plans to restrict the role of Section 106 Agreements in England
• Planning and building regulations update
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way: the perpetuity rule, ancillary rights
• Restrictive covenants: nuisance claimed, building restrictions, number of dwellings exceeded, agricultural restriction, building schemes, homeworking, power to release?
• New homes: The vendor that did not own the estate, planning enquiry, level of NHBC cover, unilateral notices
• Beneficial interests: declaration by email, misuse of power of attorney
• Assumption of responsibility for advice?
• Which communications are privileged?
• Community Infrastructure Levy: recent cases on liability notices
• Adverse possession claims, including the credibility of the seller’s statutory declaration, the acts that constituted sufficient evidence of the claim
• Purchase of freehold reversion, error in flat lease plan
• Rentcharge: did it extend to the leasehold parts of the estate?