Residential Conveyancing: Update, Hot Topics and Compliance Issues — With Stephen Desmond
As a busy conveyancer, you need to keep up to date with changes in practice as well as changes in the law. So, this presentation is designed to provide you with a vital overview on a range of current matters that you otherwise might not have time to read about.
A key part of this seminar will be its focus on the practical implications of developments in the field of residential conveyancing.
As this area of the law is rapidly evolving, the content is liable to change (eg, as and when the government announces new leasehold reform measures).
Key topics covered by this course will include:
· Progress on reforms to planning enforcement, lease extensions, leasehold sales
· Compliance Issues:
- Inadequate AML policies controls and procedures
- No firm-wide risk assessment
- Unverified trust deed
- Purchase in instalments
- Updated AML guidance
- SDLT update, including non-residential purchases
· Developments with the new TA6, and consultations on material information and the home buying process
· Selective updates to Land Registry Practice Guides
· Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
- Rights of way
- Restrictive covenants
- New homes
- Beneficial interests
- Reporting to clients on title
- Adverse possession and the general boundaries rule
The General Binding Rules – 11 years on! With James Warren from Off Mains Solutions
A refresher of what the rules are, why they were introduced, what is and isn’t compliant and how the landscape looks 11 years after its release.
Tickets: £50.00
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