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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
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
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
Presented by Tony Biggar, Legal Practitioner Director, Big Law
10.00am to 11.00am: Strata / Off the Plan Update: New Reforms, New Approaches
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
Presented by Rosalie Cattermole, Special Counsel, Cooper Grace Ward
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
Presented by Katherine Shamai, Partner, Grant Thornton
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Resolving Conveyancing Disputes through Mediation
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
Presented by Neil Thompson, Barrister