Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2025

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, empty properties
• Cases in which AML checks were considered inadequate
• The latest on Japanese knotweed, the RICS professional standard
• Selective updates to land registry practice guides, including on easements, notices, restrictions
• New builds: the latest developments on the new Ombudsman, issues arising from customer complaints, pitfalls of buyer funded developments
• The latest on proposals to declassify long leases as assured tenancies and to end section 21 notices
• The right to shared ownership, rent reviews
• Leasehold: key update on fire safety laws affecting blocks of flats and ground rents, BSA certificates, holiday lets, leasehold reforms
• Planning and building regulations update, including emerging risks with HMOs and selective licensing areas
• Developments with the latest edition of the TA6 and implications of material information
• Reforms to rentcharges: section 121, demands for payment to be regulated
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way: interruption to prescriptive right of way, the perpetuity rule
• Restrictive covenants: building restrictions, power to release?
• Leasehold: examples of poorly drafted leases, restrictions on alterations, extent of demise unclear
• New homes: stakeholder contracts and buyer-funded development
• Beneficial interests: misuse of power of attorney, client signed documents without independent legal advice, trust declaration allegedly confirmed existing arrangements
• Auction sales and the disclosure of title defects
• The general boundaries rule revisited