Easement Essentials: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks: Restrictive Covenants: Reasonableness, Interpretation and Modification
Is your Covenant a Little too Restrictive? Seeking Consent of a Covenantee - or Extracting it! WEB2210N01CZ
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Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Restrictive Covenants: Reasonableness, Interpretation and Modification
Neighbours sometimes do not see eye to eye as to what’s reasonable when a restrictive covenant is concerned.
- Can one circumvent a restrictive covenant by reference to planning instruments?
- How does one interpret a restrictive covenant: Zhang v Brighton CC [2021] VCAT 535 & City of Stonnington v Wallish [2021] VSC 84
- How does one apply to the Supreme Court to modify the terms of a covenant?
- What principles apply?
- What slightly unusual procedure needs to be adopted to initiate such an application
- what is the “old two guineas rule”?
Presented by Sydney Jacobs, Barrister, Thirteen Wentworth
Presenters
Sydney Jacobs
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.
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