LAW2026 Online: Residential Property (Autumn)

The course includes:

• High quality 4 x 1 hour pre-recorded videos and audio broadcast (topic titles are listed below)
• Q&A – a 1-hour recording of the 'Shape the Debate' Q&A session with our speakers. This is your opportunity to hear our experts answering questions on both the recorded content and general day to day Residential Conveyancing issues.
• LAW2026 Online: Residential Property online 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.

Topics Covered in this Event: 

Planning Law for Conveyancers

Presented by Richard Snape
 

A knowledge of planning law and its enforcement is essential for conveyancers, and this is an area which is undergoing major changes. The course aims to look at some of the issues including recent changes.

Topics covered include:

• Planning enforcement periods
• Planning breaches and the proceeds of crime
• Listed buildings
• Changes to use classes and permitted development
• Planning conditions
• Community Infrastructure Levy and S.106 Agreements
• Demolition of buildings and the Crooked House pub

Leasehold Dwellings Update Including the Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill

Presented by Richard Snape

The law as to leaseholds has underdone fundamental changes in recent times and more changes are planned for the future. The course aims to look at some of these fundamental changes. In particular, the Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill proposes the most fundamental changes in living memory.

Topics covered include:

• Latest on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 including latest on implementation of changes to leasehold extensions and Judicial Review;
• Latest development on the Building Safety Act including problems in deciding the height of buildings and the meaning of a relevant defect;
• The Building Safety (Wales) Act 2026;
• Latest on implementation of the Renters’ Right Act and obtaining vacant possession after implementation;
• The Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill and implementation of Commonhold, banning of new Leaseholds and caps on ground rents.

Adverse Possession: the changing legal landscape

Presented by David Keighley

An outline of recent case law and developments relating to adverse possession including: 

• The legal basis for adverse possession
• Differences between registered and unregistered land
• Proving intention to possess
• The meaning of “adjoining land”
• Recent case law examples

Misrepresentation in Residential Conveyancing 

Presented by David Keighley 

An outline of developments & case law in respect of misrepresentation in residential conveyancing transactions including:

• The warnings embedded in the TA6
• The legal basis of misrepresentation 
• Conveyancers obligations 
• Recent case law