Easement Essentials: Step by Step Guide to Obtaining an Easement: Exploring all Alternatives
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. WEB2110N02B
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Step by Step Guide to Obtaining an Easement: Exploring all Alternatives
- Understanding the relevant legislation
- Identifying all legislative avenues and alternatives to obtaining (or opposing) an easement
- Comparing and contrasting alternatives to obtaining orders of the court for the imposition of a temporary statutory easements such as easements for access/scaffold/ crane swing/ rock anchors, viz applications under the Access to Neighbouring Land legislation
- Is there legislation dealing specifically with encroachments?
- Comparing and contrasting tactical considerations such as:
- Legal costs
- Level of compensation payable
- General procedural aspects of each legislative alternative / ‘gateway’
- What is the best way to achieve a temporary easement e.g.: for crane swing, rock anchors or scaffold?
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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