Property Law Conference
Issues covered include: Planning, property, combustible cladding, defects, caretakers, ethics, leasing, tax risks, GST, investment, discretionary trusts, property valuation, development financing, capital gains tax
Description
The changes are coming in fast and furious in the Queensland property sector and if you don’t stay up to date you will inevitably fall behind. We’ve packed in a throng of timely and information packed sessions exploring all the new legislation, cases, trends and practical skills you need to stay on the cutting edge of a fast moving market.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in QLD on 6 March 2019
Session 1
Property Law Roundup
Chair: Kathleen Ready, Partner, Ready Hocking Law
9.00am to 10.00am: Planning, Property and Your Practice: Recent Developments
- Significant planning and environment court decisions impacting property lawyers
- Key merits appeals and enforcement matters
- Important takeaways for your property practice
Presented by Mitchel Batty, Barrister, Level 8 Quay Central; Preeminent Planning & Environment Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2018
10.00am to 11.00am: Body Corporate, Cladding and Caretaker Update
- Combustible cladding, defects, and disputes: critical lessons for property lawyers
- What to do about underperforming caretakers
- Options for bodies corporate in dealing with caretakers who are in breach of their agreements
- Steps necessary to terminate management agreements: process, procedure
- Review of recent cases
Presented by Robert Herd, Principal, Herd Lawyers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
Practical Legal Ethics
11.15am to 12.15pm: Ethics and the Property Lawyer
- Discussion of some common ethical issues facing property lawyers – and the answers
- Identification of the principal risk areas in practice
- Review of recent disciplinary cases
Presented by Douglas Campbell QC, Inns of Court
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Leasing Catch Up: The Cases and Developments that will Impact Your Practice
Examine the latest cases and trends in leasing and consider the practical takeaways you can apply to your practice.
Presented by Bronwyn Clarkson, Partner, Carter Newell Lawyers; Best Lawyers 2019, Natural Resources Law
Session 2
Mastering Financial Issues in Property Law
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Managing Tax Risks in Property Law
- Current duty issues for property transactions
- The current position for GST for common property transactions
- The state of play for limited recourse borrowing arrangements for SMSFs
Presented by Taryn Hartley, Principal, McInnes Wilson Lawyers
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Property Investment Through Discretionary Trusts
- The trust taxation regime
- Registration in the Land Title Register
- Beneficiary issues: income tax; company beneficiaries; and land tax
- Principals, appointors and how to solve succession problems
- Dealing with vesting and the rule against perpetuities
- Why and when you need a vesting date and issues with discretionary trusts without a vesting date
- Rule against perpetuities: considerations when drafting a trust deed
- Choice of law considerations
- Navigating trustee liens and the creditor’s right of subrogation
- Handling trustee and principal fiduciary duties
- Hybrid trusts and the alternatives
- Takeaway principles from significant cases involving discretionary trusts
Presented by Lister Harrison QC, Gibbs Chambers; Recommended Tax Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2017
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Property Valuation, Advisory, Development and Financing: A Guide Map for Lawyers
- Update on the current property and development market in QLD: Where are we at and where might things be headed?
- The latest trends in property and development financing
- Property valuation and advisory: insights for your practice
- What property lawyers need to know to protect their clients from risk while maximising their position
- Additional considerations to have on your radar: insurance, depreciation and capital gains tax
Presented by Greg Clarke, Director, McGees Property