Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2023 - 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, the latest on the consultation for reform
• Capital Gains Tax payable on sale - the rule changes and the latest HMRC guidance
• Case in which solicitor’s AML checks were wholly inadequate
• The latest RICS guidance on Japanese knotweed
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way, poorly coloured plans
• Restrictive covenants: pre-1926 conveyance, building restrictions, agricultural restriction, power to release?
• Leasehold: the latest on leasehold reform
• New builds: risky stakeholder contracts
• The duty of disclosure
• Beneficial interests: third party contributions to purchase and unwritten trust declarations, was consideration actually given?
• Reporting to clients on title
• Negligence claims against conveyancers
• Adverse possession claims
• Effect of forged Transfer
• Rentcharges
• Selective updates to Land Registry Practice Guides
• New builds: The latest developments on the new Ombudsman
• Proposed abolition of assured shorthold tenancies, the Decent Homes Standard
• Voluntary Right to Buy and the Right to Shared Ownership

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.