CPD Event for Conveyancing Solicitors

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

Improper purpose, as opposed to fraud

• 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
• New builds: The New Homes Ombudsman, the future for the Consumer Code
• 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