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LAW2025 Online: Residential Property (Spring)
Webinar Details
Available from 9th April 2025
Expires after 90 days
David Keighley and Richard Snape
CPD Hours: 6
£149.00
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This event features a combination of live and pre-recorded content, providing up to 6 hours of CPD
The course includes:
- A high quality 4 x 1 hour pre-recorded video and audio broadcast (topic titles are listed below)
- Q&A – a 1-hour 'Shape the Debate' Q&A session with our speakers that will take place on 10th May. This is your opportunity to hear our experts answering attendee questions on both the recorded content and general day to day Residential Conveyancing issues.
- LAW Online: Residential Property exhibition – visit this and you can gain an additional hour of CPD, via a webinar of choice from our Webinar Learning Library worth £35 +VAT.
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1. Acting for elderly and/or vulnerable clients
Presented by David Keighley.
Acting for elderly and/or vulnerable clients in a conveyancing transaction presents a range of additional issues for practitioners to consider over and above the sale or purchase itself. This session will look at the key issues including
- Who is your client?
- Dealing with Attorneys or OPG Deputies
- Mental Capacity
- Duress & Undue Influence
2. Restrictive Covenants & Rights of Way
Presented by David Keighley.
Advising on Restrictive Covenants and the potential limits on easements such as Rights of Way is often not clear cut. This session will look at some practical issues to consider including:
- Abandonment of Restrictive Covenant
- Intensification and/or extending the scope of an easement of Easements
- Encroachment on Rights of Way
- Limits on a Right of Way for domestic property
3. Newbuild Conveyancing: Tips and Traps
Presented by Richard Snape.
The course will look at some of the many issues relating to newbuild conveyancing, primarily for the buyer and some other problems which may arise together with their solutions.
Topics covered include:
- NHBC and similar schemes including the future of newbuild guarantees under the Building Safety Act 2022
- Planning issues including S.106 agreements, planning conditions and Community Infrastructure Levy
- Drainage issues
- S.38 Highways Agreements
- Enforceability of positive covenants in freehold land
4. Conveyancing and the Family Home
Presented by Richard Snape.
Conveyancing and the family home involves many difficulties. This course aims to highlight the difficulties and their solutions. The course is useful for both conveyancers and family practitioners.
Topics covered include:
- The various declarations of trust available
- Gifts from parents to children
- Potential undue influence and conflicts of interest between the parties
- Overriding interests and consent forms
- Problems in relation to severance
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Testimonials
We have trialled the format at previous online conferences, and we are overwhelmed with the feedback we have received from making our face-to-face events possible online. Comments we have received so far include:
"The whole experience was valuable, and communication has been really first class" - General Advisor
"I wanted to say how much I valued receiving and sharing the Online webinar. I felt it was very helpful and very interesting for you to allow all legal practitioners to participate. Thank you for all the extra information and resources, I look forward to the next." - Solicitor in practice
"The world of law is in constant flux and the speakers update on recent developments will be extremely helpful going forward (as they ever are!)" - Solicitor/Director
"I have never attended a similar event but I definitely would again" - Partner
"A good way to access training at a time to suit you, the online course is as effective as attending in person." - Associate Solicitor