Residential Conveyancing: Update, Hot Topics and Compliance Issues

3 hours CPD

Level: Update

All proceeds will be donated to Breast Cancer Now charity

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 (e.g. 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
• 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

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