Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2023

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 seminar will cover the following:

• SDLT update, including 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 2022 rule changes and the 2021 Budget
• Case in which solicitor’s AML checks were wholly inadequate
• The amended questions in the latest RICS guidance on Japanese knotweed
• Selective updates to Land Registry Practice Guides, including Mercury and electronic signatures on deeds, priority of restrictions, voluntary lease extensions
• New builds: The latest developments on the new Ombudsman, 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, the Right to Shared Ownership and the new model leases
• Leasehold: key update on fire safety laws affecting blocks of flats and ground rents
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way, prescriptive easements, drainage rights, deed of release and regrant, poorly coloured plans
• Restrictive covenants: pre-1926 conveyance, nuisance claimed, building restrictions, number of dwellings exceeded, agricultural restriction, power to release?
• New Homes; The vendor that did not own the estate, practical completion certificates and professional consultant’s certificates
• Beneficial interests: third party contributions to purchase and problematic trust declarations, joint purchasers with differing intentions, Transfer with no declaration, failure to register TR1, was consideration actually given?
• Transfer by sole attorney into joint names of herself and donor for nil consideration
• Attempt to circumvent section 106 affordable housing obligation
• Reporting to clients on title: has vital information been omitted?
• Unintended Transfer of Part
• Have the courts revived the common law duty of disclosure?
• 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
• Purchase of freehold reversion, error in flat lease plan
• Mines and minerals reservations — the latest developments
• Rentcharge: did it extend to the leasehold parts of the estate?