Conveyancing Conference
Issues covered include: strata, redevelopment, tax, compulsory acquisition, notices to perform, mandatory disclosure, off the plan contracts, SMSFs, misleading or deceptive conduct, anti-money laundering
Description
Your practice and your reputation are on the line with every conveyancing matter you work on, and any one of them can go from routine to disastrous with one misstep. Gain the latest information and essential strategies you need to avoid slipups and keep your practice on the right foot.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in NSW on 14 March 2019
Session 1
Conveyancing Updates and Procedural Skills
Chair: Lexia Wilson, Partner, Piper Alderman; Best Lawyers 2018, Real Property Law; Recommended Property & Real Estate Lawyer and Leasing Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Strata: Dealing with Units that are the Subject of a Part 10 Redevelopment Plan
- What is a strata renewal proposal under Part 10 of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 and why should I care?
- How does a strata scheme deal with a proposal for redevelopment?
- Notification of a renewal proposal: What do I tell my purchaser?
- My client has received notice of a redevelopment of their unit: What do I tell them?
Presented by Mark Bonanno, Senior Lawyer, Inner West Council; Accredited Specialist in Property Law
9.50am to 10.35am: Recent Tax Developments Impacting Conveyancing to Keep on Your Radar
- Stamp duty: recent interesting cases focusing on consideration, liability and other key concepts
- GST and CGT update: the latest issues and cases
- Additional recent cases and updates and the impact on your practice
Presented by Cameron Steele, Partner, Dentons
10.35am to 11.20am: Compulsory Acquisition and Conveyancing: Practice, Procedure and the State of Play
- Interest acquired: leasehold, native title and minerals
- Negotiations and Proposed Acquisition Notice
- Acquisition Notice and vacating land
- Compensation
- First right of refusal to buy-back land
Presented by Christopher Conolly, Partner, HWL Ebsworth; Accredited Specialist in Property Law
11.20am to 11.35am Morning Tea
11.35am to 12.20pm: Notices to Perform: Making the Clock Tick Louder
Notices to Complete make time for completion essential, but what of obligations that are steps on the way to completion? For example:
- Proffering a form of conveyance/assurance/transfer
- Answering requisitions
- Seeking a DA for constructing a building on land prior to settlement (and perhaps actually doing the construction)
Consider how one ups the ante, via a Notice to Perform, if these non-essential terms are not punctually performed.
Presented by Sydney Jacobs, Barrister, 13 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Mandatory Disclosure Regime for Off the Plan Contracts: The New Rights of Purchasers and the Obligations on Vendors
- The off the plan contracts review of December 2017
- The recommendations
- The outcome: The Conveyancing Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 (NSW)
- What rights does a purchaser have?
- What obligations does a vendor have?
- Consequences on default
Presented by Leanne Walker, Partner, Colin Biggers & Paisley
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units
Chair: Lexia Wilson, Partner, Piper Alderman; Best Lawyers 2018, Real Property Law; Recommended Property & Real Estate Lawyer and Leasing Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Purchasing Through SMSFs
- Getting the legal structure right
- Common mistakes and pitfalls of purchasing through an SMSF and how to avoid them
- Exploring the options for acquiring property using Self-Managed Super Funds: more than just LRBAs
Presented by Brooke Glastonbury, Principal, Macpherson Kelley Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Property Law
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Misleading or Deceptive Conduct in Property Transactions
- How and when it can happen
- Your ethical and professional obligations
- Who can be liable: concurrent wrongdoers and liability of individuals
- Defences and consequences
- Examples from recent cases
Presented by David Turner, Lawyer, Assured Legal Solutions
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Anti-Money Laundering Issues for Property Lawyers and Conveyancers: Get it Right or Pay the Price
- Application of the AML/CTF regime to property matters
- Understanding the relevant compliance issues
- Processes you must have in place: the why, what and how of AML/CFT requirements for property lawyers and conveyancers
Presented by Anthony Quinn, Founder / CEO, Arctic Intelligence