Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2024 - Live with Stephen Desmond

Introduction

Concentrating primarily on changes over the last 12 months, this 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

This live and interactive session will include the following:

• SDLT update, including non-residential purchases, multiple dwelling relief claims
• Case in which solicitor’s AML checks were wholly inadequate
• The RICS professional standard on Japanese knotweed
• Planning and building regulations update, e.g. enforcement, article 4 directions, s.106 obligations, permitted development rights
• Shared ownership leases: recent guidance, rent reviews
• Leasehold: reform, fire safety, EWS1s, the latest version of the BSA Landlord Certificate, BSA design and construction rules
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way: extent and validity of right
• Restrictive covenants: building restrictions, agricultural restriction, building scheme, power to release absolute covenant, enlarged house allowed, consent required, homeworking
• New builds: risky stakeholder contracts, what development was allowed by planning permission granted?
• Beneficial interests: contributions to purchase, was consideration actually given? Was there undue influence? Use of LPA
• Assumption of responsibility for advice?
• Which communications are privileged?
• Negligence claims against conveyancers
• Adverse possession claims
• Rentcharges
• The Community Infrastructure Levy
• Selective updates to Land Registry Practice Guides
• New builds: The latest developments on the new Ombudsman
• The latest on proposals to abolish assured shorthold tenancies - what about ground 8 possession claims?

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.