Conveyancing Conference
Don’t let the minefield of death, disability, tax, or planning get in the way of your conveyancing transactions. Understand the implications of death & disability on contracts. Receive guidance on dealing with councils, consent authorities and heritage orders and brush up on the latest tax triggers to ensure your clients make informed choices. Gain your core CPD units while examining misleading and deceptive conduct, mediating conveyancing disputes, and risk management strategies. 243N21
Description
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 program is based on NSW legislation
Session 1
Navigating the Conveyancing Minefield: Death, Disability, Tax, Planning & More
Chair: Judy Bliss, Principal Licensed Conveyancer, Bliss Conveyancing
9.00am to 10.00am What Property Conveyancers Need to Know about Death and Disability
- Special Conditions In Contracts
- How to Proceed with A Contract for Sale Upon Death or Disability
- Service of Notices In Real Property
- Executors and Financial Managers Obligations upon Sale
- The Rule of Ademption
Presented by Justin Brown, Barrister, 13 Wentworth Chambers
10.00am to 11.00am Planning Law for Conveyancers: Dealing with Councils, Consent Authorities and Heritage
- Covenant busting provisions under Environmental Planning Instruments
- Current certification scheme and Occupation Certificates
- Orders under the EP&A Act and the Local Government Act
- Building Information Certificates
- Interim Heritage Orders
Presented by Alistair Knox, Partner - Pikes and Verekers Lawyers; Accredited Specialist Planning and Environment Law
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm 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
12.15pm to 1.15pm Critical Recent Conveyancing Cases You Need to Know
Analyse the latest conveyancing cases impacting your practice including 2023 decisions on pre-contract agreements, misleading conduct, recovery of the deposit, caveats and electronic conveyancing certifications, and more.
Presented by Gary Newton, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Property Law; Author, Conveyancing Service NSW Looseleaf, Annotated Conveyancing and Real Property Legislation and the drop out books. Co-author, 'Land Acquisition' 7th Edition; recognised in Best Lawyers 2022,2023, Real Property Law, Leasing Law; Recommended Leasing Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022,2023
Session 2
Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management for Conveyancers
Chair: Eva Vicic, Partner, McCullough Robertson Lawyers
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Risk Management Strategies for Conveyancing Practices
- Risk management strategies to avoid property transaction disasters
- Ensuring your expectations match your client’s expectations
- Foreign client risks in conveyancing
- Verification of identity
- The benefits and burdens of technology: eConveyancing, digital communications and more
Presented by Rani Gandha, Partner, Turnbull Hill Lawyers
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Resolving Conveyancing Disputes Through Mediation
- What is mediation? Comparison to other forms of ADR
- When and how is mediation best deployed?
- Mediation in standard conveyancing matters
- Mediation in off the plan sales
- Mediation in complex property transactions including post-completion disputes
Presented by Gavin Stuart, Partner, Bartier Perry
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm Misleading or Deceptive Conduct in Property Transactions
- How and when it can happen
- Your ethical and professional obligations as a legal practitioner
- Who can be liable: concurrent wrongdoers and your individual accountability
- Defences and consequences
- Examples from recent cases: tips and traps to avoid ethical undoing
Presented by Dominic Maley, Partner, Maclarens Lawyers; Casual Academic and Course Coordinator, Property Transactions, UTS
Presenters
Judy Bliss
Judy Bliss has been in the industry since 1984. She started Bliss Conveyancing when she saw the need for a conveyancing service that spoke plain English, not legal jargon. Her mission is to help people buy property with peace of mind for the future. Her professional experience is extensive, beginning in 1984 as Personal Assistant to the Chief Magistrate of NSW, then clerking at the Nowra Local Court and the Milton Local Court. She has been a Coroner, Registrar and Marriage Celebrant. Over 10 years ago, she earned her conveyancing license and entered legal private practice so that she could use her extensive legal experience to help people buy property. Judy is a current NSW State Representative in the Pexa Advisory Board.
Justin Brown
Justin has been listed since 2017 in the Doyle’s Guide as Recommended Junior Counsel in the area of Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel. He is recognised for the depth and breadth of his advocacy skills, understanding of complex legal issues and strategic thinking. Justin is also a lecturer in succession law at the University of Sydney and has been a guest lecturer in the courses offered by the College of Law in the Master of Applied Law (Wills and Estates). He regularly appears for executors, trustees and beneficiaries of deceased estates at both trial and appellate level, primarily in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, as well as in the High Court in Nobarani v Mariconte [2018] HCA 36. Justin possesses considerable advocacy experience and provides sound legal advice in both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has completed LEADR’s Mediator’s Course and regularly appears as counsel for clients at mediations. Justin holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Sydney and a Masters of Applied Laws specialising in wills and estate. Prior to being called to the Bar in 2013, Justin practised as a solicitor and was instructed in several leading cases in wills and estate litigation.
Alistair Knox
Alistair is part of the local government and planning law team at Pikes and Verekers, acting for both private and public clients. Alistair worked at the Land and Environment Court during his legal studies. During this time, Alistair worked in various roles through the registry as well as doing work for various Judges and Commissioners of the Court. This role required Alistair to be familiar with all classes of the Court’s jurisdiction. Through his studies, Alistair also gained valuable experience working in other areas of the law including regional practice (family, conveyancing, personal injury), legal aid (criminal) and work as a tipstaff at the Industrial Relations Commission.
Gary Newton
Gary Newton is a partner in the Property and Development Group of HWL Ebsworth Lawyers. He has been practising in the area of property law since 1983, providing advice on a wide range of matters to business, government and individuals. Gary holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney and is an Accredited Specialist in Property Law, since 1994. Gary is a long standing member of the Property Law Committee of the Law Society of NSW. Gary is the co-author of a book published in December 2017 called "Land Acquisition" 7th edition by Gary Newton and Christopher Conolly. Gary is also the co-author of a book "Real Property Law Case Summaries" Newton’s 4th edition and the co-author and the co-editor of the LexisNexis Butterworths NSW Conveyancing Service (loose-leaf). He is also sole author and editor of the book ‘Annotated Conveyancing & Real Property Legislation in NSW’ 2022-203. Gary has been listed again in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers and Doyles Guide for Leasing Law and for Real Property Law.
Eva Vicic
Eva has extensive experience in property and real estate law. She advises large corporations, property trusts, private syndicates and developers. Eva has a particular focus on property development (including renewable energy projects), property sales and acquisitions, and commercial and retail leasing transactions. Eva’s expertise also extends to title and leasing due diligence and acting for institutional landlords and major tenants in a wide range of leasing transactions.
Dominic Maley
Dominic Maley was made a partner of Maclarens Lawyers in 2015. He is a Casual Academic at WSU, where since 2017 he has been the sole lecturer in Professional Practice and Building Law, and more recently he has taken up positions at the university teaching Building Law (under grad), Construction Law (post grad) (Course Coordinator), and the Expert Evidence modules of Construction Claims. He is also a Casual Academic at UTS, where he is the Course Coordinator in Property Transactions, as well as two new upcoming subjects: (i) Contractual Documentation, and (ii) Construction Law. Dominic has built up a large practice in option contracts, conveyancing, easements, retail and commercial leasing, and property law related litigation.
Gavin Stuart
Gavin is head of Bartier Perry’s Dispute Resolution & Advisory team and has over 25 years’ legal experience. His appearances in the NSW Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Australia and specialist tribunals have shown him the negative impacts of litigation, as well as the positive ones. For that reason, he helps his clients avoid the litigation treadmill where he can. Instead, he prefers to solve their disputes through strategies designed to shorten exposure to litigation such as negotiation or mediation. Gavin’s practice focuses on property related disputes, finance recoveries, insolvency, intellectual property matters and Corporations issues and directors duties. An area of focus for Gavin is helping his clients extricate themselves from broken partnership, shareholder and joint venture relationships and seeing them to a position where they can get on with their next opportunity. Gavin also regularly advises online businesses and specialises in helping clients get better outcomes in disputes involving unlawful online conduct, copyright and confidential information.
Rani Gandha
Rani Gandha is the Partner in charge of the Business, Comercial and Property team at Turnbull Hill Lawyers. She acts in a wide range of property work, including acting for buyers and sellers of residential and commercial property and for lenders and borrowers in respect of residential mortgage matters. She has extensive expertise in dealing with all types of real property, including Old System, Torrens Title, Qualified Title and Strata Title. Rani also acts for clients in respect of resumptions of property by Transport for NSW, creating easements by way of Transfer and acts for land developers in respect of subdivisions. She advises clients on commercial and retail property leasing matters including negotiation and preparation of leasing documents and assists clients in a wide range of business issues. Dedicated to ensuring her clients’ interests are adequately protected, Rani users her experience to understand their goals and objectives and gives them realistic and practical advice. Rani also has a keen interest in and practises in Estate Planning (including tax effective Wills and associated documents).
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Cliftons - Margaret St
Level 13, 60 Margaret St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
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