Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2022

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.

What You Will Learn

This seminar will cover the following:

• SDLT update, including updated HMRC guidance on applying for a refund, non-residential purchases, multiple dwelling relief claims, seeking relief from the 15% rate, the latest on the consultation for reform
• Capital Gains Tax payable on sale - the rule changes and the 2021 Budget
• Updates on property and mortgage fraud
• The amended questions in the latest edition of form TA6 on Japanese knotweed, and the latest RICS guidance
• Selective updates to Land Registry Practice Guides, including Mercury and electronic signatures on deeds, priority of restrictions, changes to cancellation procedures, Form LL restrictions — Certificate or consent? Who is a conveyancer?
• New builds: The latest developments on the Help to Buy, the new Ombudsman, the future for the Consumer Code, plot exceeded the permitted size, advice on road schemes, pitfalls of stakeholder contracts
• The latest on proposals to abolish assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 notices - what about ground 8 possession claims?
• Voluntary (i.e. housing association) Right to Buy, Help to Buy 2021-2023, the Right to Shared Ownership and the new model leases
• Leasehold: key update on fire safety laws affecting blocks of flats
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way, prescriptive easements
• Restrictive covenants: missing title deeds, pre-1926 conveyance, nuisance claimed, number of dwellings exceeded?
• New Homes; The vendor that did not own the estate, practical completion certificates and professional consultant’s certificates
• Beneficial interests: undue influence, third party contributions to purchase (including to Right to Buy purchases) and unwritten trust declarations, joint purchasers with differing intentions, Transfer with no declaration
• Transfer by sole attorney into joint names of herself and donor for nil consideration
• Reporting to clients on title: has vital information been omitted?
• Unintended Transfer of Part
• Have the courts revived the common law duty of disclosure?
• Negligence claims against conveyancers and clients who do not want the Transfer to be registered
• Is the conveyancer ever subject to a trustee obligation as regards third party funds?
• 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
• Fraudulent and sham transactions
• Update on Property and Registration Fraud
• Purchase of freehold reversion, error in flat lease plan
• Mines and minerals reservations — the latest developments