CPD Core Competency Areas for Property Lawyers
Issues covered include: costs, Uniform Laws, Property Transaction, ethical issues
Description
When your reputation, your client relationships or even your practice are potentially on the line with every property matter you take, can you afford to make a critical mistake on your practice and procedure or when trying to avoid ethical pitfalls? Gain the skills and strategies necessary to stay out of trouble and keep your clients happy, all while pinning down your core CPD points.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 CPD point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 CPD point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 CPD point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Chair: Yikai Hoe, Director, Provident Lawyers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Solicitor/Client Costs in Property Matters and the Impact of the New Uniform Laws
- The importance of costs agreements and disclosures
- Effectively dealing with solicitor and client costs issues faced by property lawyers
- Background to the transition to the Uniform Law
- The impact of the new Uniform Laws on solicitor/client cost issues
- Particular issues for Western Australia regarding the new Uniform Laws
Presented by Maria-Luisa Coulson, Managing Director Coulson Legal; Accredited Arbitrator
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Modifying or Extinguishing a Covenant, Easement or Obligation
- Methods and steps for extinguishing covenants, easements, restrictions or obligations
- Removal by agreement between parties
- Practice and procedure for removal by an Order of the Court: applications, notice and orders
- A guide to discharging or modifying a covenant or easement
- Examples, cases and the practical takeaways
Presented by David Jones, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm: Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Ethical Issues Faced when Dealing with a Client in a Property Transaction
- Understanding your client’s commercial needs
- Dealing with unethical behaviour and heavy handed dealings
- Controlling fees: scope and value for money
- Notifying the other party when seeing an error
- Ethical considerations when selling property to foreign investors
Presented by Darryl Stewart, Director, Esteem Legal
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia