Easement Essentials: Easement Fundamentals: Strategies and Tactics
Increase your knowledge & understanding with this series on easements for property & planning lawyers and conveyancers. Begin with the fundamentals including easement strategies, tactics, applications & mediation, then explore how to obtain an easement and all of the alternatives. Finally, take a deep dive into land law, choosing a forum & jurisdictional issues. Enhance your skillset by going beyond the basics so you’re prepared for any easement matter that comes your way. WEB2110N02A
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Easement Fundamentals: Strategies and Tactics
- Overview
- Consideration of the common and not so common varieties of easements
- The key takeaways you need to know for each
- How does the court exercise its discretion when considering whether to grant a statutory easement?
- What are the various considerations the court will weigh, e.g. what is ‘reasonably necessary for the effective use or development of land’?
- Tips for getting the court to see it your way
- What inquiries should you make prior to requesting an easement?
- What letter do you need to write?
- What evidence do you need to adduce?
- Opposing an easement application
- On what grounds can you oppose an application for a statutory easement and can you hold your neighbour to ransom?
- Mediation
- How can you best lay the foundation for and conduct an easement mediation?
Presented by Sydney Jacobs, Barrister, Thirteen Wentworth Selborne
Presenters
Sydney Jacobs is a barrister at 13 Wentworth Chambers. He read for his LL.M at Cambridge and has a commercial equity practice encompassing property, partnership, corporate law and building & construction disputes. Sydney has gained expertise in easements involving both Torrens and Old System land, leasing matters, contracts for the sale of land including off-the-plan, notices to perform and to complete, rescission/ termination /specific performance /relief against forfeiture/ claiming the return of deposits, options/rights of first refusal, and strata disputes. A list of his many cases and publications is to be found on his 13 Wentworth Chambers website. Underscoring a life dedicated to the law (when he is not snowboarding), Sydney is the sole author of two major loose-leaf services, namely: Commercial Damages and Injunctions: Law and Practice, and part authors the leading loose-leaf service Commercial & International Arbitration (all published by Thomson Reuters). He has been, for many years, a popular presenter of CPD seminars.
Testimonials
Testimonials from Sydney’s past property law presentations:
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