Conveyancing Conference
Issues covered include: REIQ contracts, e-conveyancing, strata, cladding, real estate agent, GST, foreign resident capital gain, stamp duty, state tax, anti-money laundering, AML/CTF, conveyancing disputes, mediation, misleading or deceptive conduct, contracts, sale of land, ethics, ethical obligations
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:
3 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
2 units in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in QLD on 19 March 2019
Session 1
Conveyancing Updates and Strategies
Chair: Tim O'Dwyer, Consultant, Mitchells Solicitors
9.00am to 10.00am: Latest Cases, Legislation and Trends: The Impact on Your Practice
- Changes to REIQ Contracts
- Trends in E-Conveyancing
- Discussion on recent cases including Sentinel Citilink Pty Ltd v PS Citilink Pty Ltd
Presented by Tony Biggar, Legal Practitioner Director, Big Law
10.00am to 11.00am: Strata / Off the Plan Update: New Reforms, New Approaches
- Strata reforms on the horizon, the changes being considered and the impact on conveyancing
- Cladding update: navigating the new regulations and procedures and the interplay with conveyancing
- Tips and traps: often overlooked issues in the conveyancing process and their impact
- Body corporate information certificates, whether or not they’re received, and the consequences post-settlement
- Additional recent developments and trends
Presented by James Nickless, General Counsel, The MaxSoft Group
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Real Estate Agent Commissions
Explore the practical realities of real estate agent commissions, tips to keep in mind, and pitfalls to avoid, including what buyers’ and sellers’ solicitors need to know.
Presented by Tim O'Dwyer, Consultant, Mitchells Solicitors
Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm: The New GST & Foreign Resident Capital Gain Withholding Regimes and the Latest Stamp Duty Developments
- GST: the new GST withholding regime and increased conveyancing complexity
- Understanding the notification and reporting requirements
- What you need to know about dealing with the ATO and the practical issues involved
- Penalties for failing to get it right
- State taxes update: recent developments in Queensland stamp duty
- The OSR’s compliance program
- Additional foreign acquirer duty: common scenarios where it applies and additional duty of 7% is charged – it’s not just the big end of town!
- Navigating foreign resident capital gains tax withholding: tricks and traps
Presented by Rosalie Cattermole, Special Counsel, Cooper Grace Ward
Session 2
CPD Mandatory Core Areas
Chair: Rosalie Cattermole, Special Counsel, Cooper Grace Ward
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Anti-Money Laundering Issues for Property Lawyers and Conveyancers: Get it Right or Pay the Price
- The AML/CTF landscape
- Application of the AML/CTF regime to property matters
- Understanding the relevant compliance issues and impacts
- Processes you must have in place: the why, what and how of AML/CTF requirements for property lawyers and conveyancers
Presented by Katherine Shamai, Partner, Grant Thornton
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Resolving Conveyancing Disputes through Mediation
- Insights and practical tips for you and your clients when mediating disputes
- When to mediate - and when not to!
- How to present your best case at mediation.
- How to ‘win’ at mediation.
- How to reach a resolution in highly acrimonious, emotional or multi-party cases.
Presented by Janelle Payne, Barrister, Burnett Lane Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practical Legal Ethics
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Misleading or Deceptive Conduct in Contracts for the Sale of Land
- 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 Neil Thompson, Barrister