Morning Session
Residential Conveyancing – Stephen Desmond
3 hours CPD | Level: Update
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).
The General Binding Rules – 11 years on! – James Warren
What will people take away from it…
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.
Afternoon Session
Residential Property Fraud Risks: Compliance Lessons from Real Cases – Stephen Desmond
1.5 hours CPD | Level: Intermediate
This course explores the many ways in which property transactions can be manipulated by fraudsters, along with a wide range of practical steps that conveyancing practitioners can take to reduce the risk of being used as an inadvertent accessory to fraud.
Pre-Contract Searches: Tricky Replies, How to Respond to Them, and Material Information Guidance – Stephen Desmond
1.5 hours CPD | Level: Intermediate
Issues covered during this session will include the following:
- Key planning issues
- Building regulation completion certificate
- Costs of making up road payable by frontagers
- Public rights of way shown on a definitive map or revised definitive map?
- Enforcement notice
- Direction restricting permitted development
- Section 106 agreements and CIL
- Contaminated Land
- Drainage and sewerage issues.