Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2025 - Live with Stephen Desmond

Introduction

Concentrating primarily on changes over the last 12 months, this virtual classroom seminar is ideal for the busy conveyancer; it is very practical and relevant to your day-to-day practice.

Some of the changes are small and could easily 'sneak up on you'. Others can be more significant for the way you carry out your professional responsibilities.

As a busy conveyancer you need to keep up to date with changes in practice as well as changes in the law.

The course content is liable to change if there are any important new developments in this area of the law.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will include the following:

• SDLT update, including non-residential purchases, empty properties
• Case in which AML checks were wholly inadequate
• The TA6 and RICS professional standard on Japanese knotweed
• Planning and building regulations update
• Reform to rentcharges: statutory remedies and demands
• Leasehold: lease extensions, the latest version of the BSA Landlord Certificate, BSA design and construction rules
• Leasehold: The latest on proposals to reform assured tenancies and ground rents
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
• Rights of way: alleged interruption to prescriptive easement claim
• Restrictive covenants: building restrictions, agricultural restriction, power to release absolute covenant, enlarged house allowed
• New builds: risky stakeholder contracts, fractional sales model
• Beneficial interests: Was there undue influence? Was Transfer intended as an outright gift? Was the declaration of trust a sham?
• Adverse possession and the general boundaries rule
• Emerging pitfalls for those who own or control an HMO
• Selective updates to Land Registry Practice Guides
• New builds: The latest developments on the new Ombudsman

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.