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INDEX
WEBINARS
SEMINARS
A Guide to Understanding & Avoiding Adverse Possession With Vivian
Chapman QC
3
A Masterclass on Profitable Conveyancing
3
A to Z of Leasehold Conveyancing
3
An Introduction to Equity Release - Getting It Right
4
An Introduction to the Right to Manage
4
Applications to the LVT (Non-enfranchisement applications)
4
Asset Ownership on Relationship Breakdown & Death: Who Gets What?
4
Buying Land for Development - Traps, Tricks & Pitfalls
5
Calling All Conveyancers - New Regulatory Compliance Requirements Explained
5
Conveyancing Comprehensive Update 2013
5
Conveyancing for Elderly & Vulnerable Clients
Conveyancing for High Risk & Unusual Clients
A Billing Guide for Conveyancers
15
Advising Co-Owners: How Far Do Your Conveyancing Duties Extend?
15
Amending Deeds & Rectification
15
Applying for First Registration at the Land Registry
16
Buy to Let - A Comprehensive Guide
16
Buying Land for Development - Key Issues Explored With Vivian Chapman QC
16
Challenges to Planning Decisions: The Latest Reforms
16
Commercial Property for Conveyancers - A Practical Approach to Key Issues
17
Commercial Property Transactions for Conveyancers
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Conveyancing & Title Insurance: Dangers & Traps for the Unwary
Conveyancing Searches: Why Do You Do Them & How To Deal With The
Results
6
Conveyancing: The Challenges From Lenders
18
Conveyancing for Support Staff - The Risk Areas
6
Defending Possession Proceedings
18
Conveyancing Traumas
6
Don’t Be a Negligent Planning Lawyer - Traps to Avoid
18
Development & Highways - A Blueprint for Planning & Property Lawyers
6
Don’t Be a Negligent Conveyancer - Ten Traps to Avoid to Stay Safe
18
Dealing With Tricky Conveyancing Issues Parts 1 & 2
Energy Efficiency of Homes, Drainage, Wind & Flood: Implications for
Conveyancers
7
Easements & The Land Registry
19
Enfranchisement: Collective Rights & The 1993 Act
19
Fighting Conveyancing Fires between Exchange & Completion
7
Enfranchisement: Commercial & Mixed Use Buildings
19
Flat & Apartment Leases - Tips, Traps & Key Risk Factors
8
Equity Release - An Update
19
High Value Residential Property: SDLT & ARPT
8
Estate Agents Law
20
Highway Issues for Property Lawyers
How to Deal with Chancel Repair Liability - What Every Conveyancer
Needs to Know
8
Joint Ownership - The Latest
20
Knock It Down - The Latest on Planning Enforcement
20
LPAs & Local Plans - The Latest on Planning Applications
20
Land Registry - Fraud & Disputes - Rectification, Adjudication, Objections
9
Mistakes In The Contract: Has The Court of Appeal Gone Too Far?
21
Land Registry Practice & Procedure Update: What You Need to Know
9
Planning Law for Property Lawyers - An Update
21
Leasehold Enfranchisement - How to Avoid the Pitfalls & Bear Traps
9
Possessory Title - Making a Successful Application to The Land Registry
21
Leases & The Land Registry - Avoid the Pitfalls
9
Property Development Update
21
Legal Issues When Buying & Selling Local Authority Land
10
Property Notices - Getting Them Right
22
Love Thy Neighbour? A Guide to Boundary & Neighbour Disputes
Making the Switch? Commercial Conveyancing for Residential
Property Lawyers
Mistakes, Mortgage Fraud & Negligence - A Guide for Conveyancers
Mortgage Fraud - Identifying & Reducing The Risks
Planning Law & Practice: Get Up To Date
Planning Law for Property Lawyers - The Complete Toolkit
Public Rights of Way - A Definitive Guide
Quick Conveyancing Update - 3 Hours
Residential Landlord & Tenant - Contentious Issues
Residential Service Charges - The Works
10
Rights to Light & Lessons Learned From Heaney
22
Security Over Land - Getting It Right
22
10
Squatting & Adverse Possession - Protect Your Client’s Interests
Structuring to Avoid The Landlord & Tenant Act 1987 - Tenants’
Pre-Emption Rights
22
Tenancy Deposit Schemes Under The Housing Act
23
The Conveyancing Protocol & The New TA6, TA10 & TA11 Forms
23
The Conveyancing Protocol Revisited
23
The Green Deal for Conveyancers
The New Annual Residential Property Tax
24
24
The Protection of Third Party Interests in the Register
24
Restrictive Covenants on Land - A Masterclass
12
Selling Land to Developers
13
Shared & Joint Ownership
13
Taxation Traps for Conveyancers
13
The CML Lenders Handbook & BSA Instructions Inc The Lenders’ Handbook Part 3
13
Title Defects - Diffusing the Time Bombs before Completion Parts 1 & 2
14
Village Green Applications - A Practical Guide
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Residential Property
Seminars
A Guide to Understanding &
Avoiding Adverse Possession
with Vivian Chapman QC
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Acquisition of title to land by adverse possession is a subject that frequently crops up in practice and gives
rise to a great deal of litigation. This intermediate level seminar will examine the fundamental principles of
the acquisition of title to land by adverse possession and the application of those principles to the issues that
arise in practice. Particular attention will be paid to the numerous recent important court decisions in this
field, such as:
• Boccardo v Star Energy [2011] 1 AC 380
• R (Smith) v Land Registry [2011] QB 413
• Site Developments v Cuthbury [2011] Ch 226
• Baxter v Mannion [2011] 1 WLR 1594
• Zarb v Parry [2012] 2 All ER 320
• Iam Group plc v Chowdrey [2012] EWCA 505
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following topics:
• The underlying principles governing the acquisition of title by adverse possession
• What is “possession”?
• When is it “adverse”?
• Adverse possession of unregistered land
• Adverse possession of registered land
•
Possessory title
• How to identify land at risk of claims to title by adverse possession
• How to protect land from claims to adverse possession
• Squatting as a crime under s.144, Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
SPEAKER.
Vivian Chapman QC is a barrister who specialises in real property disputes. He has a double first in law
from Cambridge, took silk in 2006 and practices from 9, Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
21 Mar, 9 Oct
Birmingham 15 May
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Leeds
27 Jun
Manchester 24 Sep
Cost:
A Masterclass on
Profitable Conveyancing
Bristol
12 Sep
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
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A to Z of Leasehold
Conveyancing
Introduction
This Masterclass is limited to 25 delegates on a first come, first served basis, so please
reserve your place as soon as possible.
Introduction
The aim of the course is to equip the manager or leader with the skills needed to establish or maintain a
profitable conveyancing team. It is designed to address the issues experienced by existing small to medium
sized legal practices. Residential conveyancing continues to be a difficult area in which to make a profit. The
pressure on fees; a reducing market share; restricted lenders panels and increasing supervision from a new
regulator all conspire to make it hard to build a sustainable and prosperous practice. This seminar will equip
you with the essentials to consider in how you might restructure your business to meet the challenges. It will
also reinvigorate you with the energy to tackle the challenges.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• The business model: Partnership or ABS?
• SRA and CQS compliance
• Staff training and management: changes in approach and culture may well be needed
• Client service: do we really deliver?
• Case management: the essentials
• Acting for lenders; how to deal with the reduction in panel membership
• Marketing and paying for referrals
This seminar covers a wide spectrum of leasehold conveyancing, from the basic principles of (long) leasehold
to buying a shared ownership residential flat.
It is ideal for those who are new or relatively new to leasehold conveyancing through to experienced
conveyancers who are looking for a refresher and an updater in one.
Not just about sales and purchases, it will cover problem areas such as service charges, administration
charges, consents, reversionary interests and rights of first refusal, and much, much more.
What you will learn:
• Basic principles, enforcement
• Enfranchisement a brief guide through this complex area
- Collective enfranchisement
- Lease extensions - flats including ‘what is a flat - the new rules’
- Leasehold ‘houses’ - what qualifies as a house
• The right to manage
• Service charges - the landlord’s new obligations and the tenant’s new ‘powers’
• The problems on sales of leasehold property - special conditions
• Purchase and mortgage of leaseholds and complying with the CML Lenders’ Handbook
- The differences in practice - managing your client’s expectations
- New builds - the basic design/legal structure - different designs create different problems, the new
incentives requirements
- Notices, etc
• The new rules for SDLT on shared ownership properties
SPEAKER.
Andrew Crawford has led a busy team of conveyancers from 5 offices and brings to his lecturing the
experience of the practical issues that face busy practitioners. He endeavors to relate the law to the
pragmatic need to deliver a conveyancing service and advocates a proportionate approach to risk
management and client service. He established the training company AAC Law in 2010. Andrew is a joint
author of the Law Society CQS on line training requirements and lectures extensively throughout England
and Wales. AAC Law Ltd is an accredited trainer with the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
Leeds
12 Mar
Bristol
10 Apr
London
5 Jun, 9 Oct Birmingham 12 Jul
Manchester 4 Sept
£337.50 + VAT £375 + VAT
£500 + VAT
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SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
London
10 Apr, 3 Oct Manchester
Birmingham5 Jun
Bristol
£207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
Cost: 17 Apr, 1 Oct
18 Jun SmartPlan Holders Season Ticket Holders Non Season Ticket Holders
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An Introduction to Equity
Release - Getting It Right
An Introduction to the
Right to Manage
NEW
NEW
Introduction
Introduction
This introductory seminar covers the growing area of Equity Release. Equity release is typically used for
clients over 55 years of age who own their own home and wish to get a cash lump sum or regular income
or both to use as they wish and remain in their property for the remainder of their lifetime.The seminar will
cover both types of equity release and will consider the pros and cons of each. A number of key questions
will be answered including:What happens with joint borrowing?; Can a sale be forced if your client moves
into sheltered accommodation?; Do early repayment charges apply?; Must rent be paid under a Home
Reversion Plan?; Is equity in the client’s home always guaranteed?; What if you have doubts about your
client’s mental capacity or suspect undue influence?; Does SHIP help?
What you will learn:
This half day seminar will cover the following:
• What Equity Release actually is
• Who should consider Equity Release?
• Types of Equity Release
• Lifetime Mortgages - advantages and disadvantages
• Home Reversion Plans - advantages and disadvantages
• Understanding the features and risks - Is equity protected? What about negative equity? Unlocking
cash in the home, what about interest charges? Early redemption and any loss of value? What
happens if there is a change in circumstances?
• Explaining the features and risks to the client
• Capacity of clients - What do you do when a client’s capacity is in doubt?
• Safe Home Income Plans (“SHIP”) Certificate - What protection does this offer your client?
• What other guarantees should be considered?
It is now 10 years since the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 created the “no fault” Right to
Manage (“RTM”) for leaseholders to exercise. After a slow start, there are now around 3000 RTM companies
in England and Wales and this figure seems set to grow rapidly. Leaseholders tend to see RTM as a way of
reducing their service charges and, for that reason, are keen to explore this remedy. Landlords are
increasingly becoming aware of the problems that can result from the RTM being exercised over their
buildings.
This introductory seminar is aimed at those who want to understand how RTM works and be able to advise
clients on the procedure and potential pitfalls, both for leaseholders and landlords. It would be of interest
to those who act for leaseholders, large landlords or estate buildings and landlords in mixed use buildings.
SPEAKER.
Justin Bates, is a barrister at Arden Chambers, where he specialises in leasehold property disputes. He is
the co-author of “Leasehold Disputes, a guide to leasehold valuation tribunals” (Legal Action Group, 2nd
edition, 2009, third edition forthcoming), the deputy general editor of the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law
(Sweet & Maxwell) as well as many other books and articles. He is described by Chambers and Partners as
an “expert” on LVT matters and has appeared in numerous important and reported Lands Tribunal / Upper
Tribunal (Lands Chamber) cases.
Participants will be guided through the statutory process, with reference to the relevant case-law.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• What buildings qualify (Re Finland St, Lands Tribunal)
• The extent of the rights acquired (Gala Unity v Ariadne Road RTM Co, Upper Tribunal and Court of
Appeal)
• Dealing with procedural flaws (Re Assethold, Upper Tribunal)
• The impact of the RTM on service charge collection (Re New River Head, Upper Tribunal)
SPEAKER.
Lorraine Stratton-Webb, Partner at Clough & Willis Solicitors. Lorraine specialises in equity release and is
an experienced Property Solicitor and Head of the Residential Conveyancing Department of Clough & Willis
Solicitors in Bury.
Duration: Leeds
Birmingham
London
Cost: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
22 May
Bristol
12 Sept
Manchester
16 Oct
10 Jul
25 Sept
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Applications to the LVT
(Non-enfranchisement applications)
Introduction
The Leasehold Valuation Tribunal deals with many different types of leasehold disputes other than
enfranchisement claims. In fact virtually all disputes between landlords and tenants regarding long
residential leases are now heard by the LVT.
Conveyancers are increasingly becoming involved in, and/or need to know how to resolve disputes about
service charges, administration fees, etc.
How easy is it to use the LVT? How much does it cost? How quickly can I get a decision? These and many
more questions will be answered in this full day seminar presented by an expert in this area of practice.
From the basic who, where and what is the LVT to the decision and possible appeal.
What you will learn:
• Service Charge disputes
• Management disputes
- Contractual entitlement
- Right to Manage under the Commonhold
- Statutory restrictions on recovery of service
and Leasehold Reform Act 2002
charges
- Appointment of a manager under Landlord
- Reasonableness of service charges
and Tenant Act 1987
• Consultation requirements
• Forfeiture
- Qualifying works
- Determination of breach
- Qualifying long term agreements
• Proceedings in the LVT
- Dispensation from consultation
- Procedure
• Administration Charges - what is reasonable?
- Evidence
- Burden and standard of proof
• Insurance disputes
- Appeals
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Asset Ownership on Relationship
Breakdown & Death
Who Gets What?
Introduction
This seminar is designed for private client and matrimonial lawyers plus conveyancers.
On death, disputes often arise over joint bank accounts, personal chattels and the deceased’s house.
In life, whilst the court has wide powers when a marriage or civil partnership breaks down, there is no
statutory power for the court to rearrange the beneficial interest of cohabitees, meaning that ascertaining
who owns what can be very important.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• Who owns monies in bank accounts?
• Who owns personal chattels, including who owns the family pets?
• Who owns assets purchased with monies from bank accounts?
• Ascertaining the beneficial interest in a house or land
• Severance of joint tenancies of houses or land or personal property
• The effect of relationship breakdown on joint tenancies
• Entitlement under the intestacy rules
• The doctrine of election
• The power of a court to rearrange the beneficial interest and the Inheritance (Provision for Family and
Dependents) act 1975
SPEAKER.
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Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
London
12 Mar, 18 Oct
Leeds 26 Apr
Birmingham 28 Jun
Bristol 9 Jul
Manchester 6 Sep
£207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
Cost: Justin Bates, is a barrister at Arden Chambers, where he specialises in leasehold property disputes. He is
the co-author of “Leasehold Disputes, a guide to leasehold valuation tribunals” (Legal Action Group, 2nd
edition, 2009 thirs edition forthcoming), the deputy general editor of the Encyclopedia of Housing Law
(Sweet & Maxwell) as well as many other books and articles. He is described by Chambers and Partners as
an “expert” on LVT matters and has appeared in numerous important and reported Lands Tribunal / Upper
Tribunal (Lands Chamber) cases.
John Thurston, LL.B., TEP, solicitor. He is particularly interested in the law relating to wills, trusts, taxation,
powers of attorney and elderly clients. He is the author of “A Practitioner’s Guide to Powers of Attorney”, “A
Practitioner’s Guide to Trusts”, “A Practitioner’s Guide to Inheritance Claims” , “A Practitioner’s Guide to
Executorship and Administration” and “Estate Planning for the Middle Income Client” all published by
Bloomsbury Professional. He is also a contributor to “Tolley’s Administration of Trusts” and “Tolley’s
Administration of Estates”, and contributed a section to “Tax Efficient Will Drafting” published by LexisNexis
Butterworths. He is also a consultant.
Duration: London Birmingham
Cost: Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
14 Mar, 24 Oct
Manchester
14 Jun
Bristol
21 Jun
Birmingham
8 Jul
Leeds
27 Sept
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
30 Apr, 24 Oct Manchester
24 Jul £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
15 May
£460 + VAT
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Calling All Conveyancers
Buying Land for Development
Traps, Tricks & Pitfalls
New Regulatory Compliance
Requirements Explained
NEW
NEW
Introduction
You’re instructed to act on the purchase of a development site. What do you need to watch out for? There’s so much
more to it than an ‘ordinary’ conveyancing transaction.A rising market can hide mistakes; the current market won’t.
The need to get things right, first time, has never been greater. Your client won’t thank you if he ends up with a site
that can’t be developed as he wants to, or one that he can’t sell on.From initial instructions, through to completion
and beyond, you must be on top of your game, anticipating difficulties, looking out for problems, making rights
‘stick’, finding commercially acceptable solutions to enable the deal to go through.
The seminar will take a practical approach and will draw lessons from recent case law.
What you will learn:
• Searches & enquiries - how to
find out about your site
• Due diligence
• Boundaries & plans
• Vacant possession
• Enforceability
• Benefit and burden
- where do they lie?
• Insurance
• Registration
• Rights which benefit the land
• Existing ones
• New ones - what do you
need?
• Do they work?
• Are they adequate?
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Do they bind?
Registration
Intensification of use
Abandonment
Proposals for reform
(2015?)
• Rights which burden
• Do they prevent or
hamper the development?
• Lift & shift/can you
relocate them?
• Can you terminate them?
• Benefit & burden
• Registration
• Insurance
• Prescriptive rights and rights
of light
• The basics
• Lessons from case law
• Additional
rights required - during
construction?
• Town
& village greens - where do
we stand?
• Access and highways
• Using existing accesses
and/or creating new
accesses
• Third party land and
visibility splays
Introduction
This seminar covers all the vital regulatory topics, including the development of the SRA’s regulatory changes which
came into effect on 6th October 2011 specifically aimed at conveyancers.Conveyancers especially are affected, not
least because of the new and novel approach to conflicts of interest.Equally important alongside the Code of Conduct,
the SRA will be looking further at their Supervision and Enforcement Strategy for conveyancing and in particular the
issues of holding client money and use of undertakings which all conveyancers need to know about.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• How different is the Code of Conduct 2011?
• How does Outcomes Focussed Regulation work?
• What changes will I need to my client care letter?
• How has the conflict of interest situation changed?
• Can I act for a seller and buyer?
• Can I act for a lender and borrower?
• What about the old exemptions?
• How do I deal with my duty of confidentiality
when I act for two parties?
• What must I disclose to a client?
• Who can I refer clients to for financial advice?
• What is the latest situation on referral fees?
• What are my obligations to the SRA and Legal
Ombudsman?
• What does the Code say about undertakings?
• How has the SRA been dealing with solicitors
under the Code?
• Are there any changes to the Accounts Rules?
• How is the COLP and COFA regime working in
practice?
• The SRA is revisiting its Conveyancing Strategy and
will be considering the holding of client money
and the use of undertakings. What are the latest
developments?
SPEAKER.
Katharine Fenn is a real estate professional support lawyer at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. With over 13 years’
experience as a PSL, following 10 years in practice at major law firms, she writes and lectures widely on commercial
property issues. She is actively involved with both the Land Registry and the Stamp Office in discussions on
developments in law and practice and their effect on practitioners.
Dennis Cameron, a Law Society Council Member and a member of the Regulatory Affairs Board and also a member
of the Board’s Rules and Ethics Committee. Denis has been involved throughout the development of the SRA’s
important regulatory changes which came into effect on the 6 October 2011. Throughout his career, Denis has
specialised in residential conveyancing and probate work. He was President of the Blackpool and Fylde District Law
Society in 1996 and was Honorary Secretary of that Society from 1998 until 2002. Denis joined the Law Society
Council as member for the Constituency of Central Lancashire and Northern Greater Manchester in July 1999 and still
retains that seat on the Council having been re-elected on three occasions.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
9 Apr, 1 Oct
Manchester
11 Apr
Bristol
17 May
Leeds
11 Jul
Birmingham 3 Sept
Cost:
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Duration: London Bristol
Manchester
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Conveyancing Comprehensive
Update 2013
Concentrating on changes over the last 12 months, this 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’. As a busy conveyancer you need to keep up-to-date with changes in practice as well as changes in
the law. Take a day out to pick up the latest news on other practical matters; the good news as well as the
bad news.
What you will learn:
The seminar will be constantly updated through the year but is likely to include:
• More new cases on service charges and enfranchisement matters
• The Localism Act - how does it affect conveyancers
• Joint ownership - the Supreme Court update
• Code of Conduct
• The ‘Green Deal’
• New NHBC guidance and procedures
• Sewers, septic tanks and joint drains
• SDLT changes
• Boundary disputes - the Court of Appeal’s first look at the LRA S98 defence
• Recent cases on practical aspects of conveyancing including:
•Overriding interests - ‘occupation’ and ‘apparent on inspection’
•Rights of way
•Contracts - conditional, rescission, oraL
•Adverse possession
•The Lenders Handbook Part 3 - separate representation
SPEAKER.
22 May
3 Jul
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
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Conveyancing for Elderly &
Vulnerable Clients
NEW
Introduction
2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
11 Apr, 15 Oct
Leeds
19 Jun
Birmingham
20 Sept
Introduction
Conveyancing transactions involving vulnerable clients present additional challenges for the property lawyer.
The client’s predicament might be caused by age, financial problems, relationship breakdown.
This course focuses on key issues and considers the steps that need to be taken to identify a client facing
these types of situations and addresses the additional risks that such instructions might present to the
conveyancer.
What you will learn:
• Assessing a client’s capacity: am I able to rely solely on a Doctor’s report? Who can instruct me if
capacity is lost?
• Should lasting powers of attorney be used for conveyancing transactions?
• What steps can be taken to mitigate the risk of a power of attorney being misused by the donee?
• Making a gift of property to avoid care home fees: what advice needs to be given? When might fraud
occur?
• Why equity release schemes are now regarded as high-risk transactions
• Undue influence - when is consent not freely given? When should I cease to act or insist upon
independent legal advice being obtained?
• Reserving a right to live at a property transferred, including taxation issues
• Distressed or insolvent sellers, sale and rent back schemes, negative equity sales
• Particular issues arising from matrimonial transfers and deferred charges
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. As a former practitioner, Stephen has represented both business and private
property clients and has been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
Leeds
24 Apr London
Birmingham13 Jun
Bristol
Manchester 21 Oct
£207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
Cost:
Duration: London
Leeds
Bristol
Cost:
25 Apr, 24 Oct
10 Jul
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2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
17 Apr, 9 Oct
Birmingham 21 May
12 Jun
Manchester
18 Sept
23 Sept £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Conveyancing for High Risk &
Unusual Clients
NEW
Conveyancing for Support Staff
The Risk Areas
NEW
Introduction
Introduction
Conveyancing transactions involving high risk or unusual clients present additional challenges for the
property lawyer. This seminar focuses on key issues and considers the steps that need to be taken to identify
a client facing these types of situations and addresses the additional risks that such instructions might
present for conveyancers.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following topics:
• Co-owners: What are the key issues and how far do your responsibilities stretch?
• First-time buyers: How does acting for them differ from representing other clients? What steps should
you take when family members provide cash contribution?
• Money launderers & mortgage fraudsters: What are the current issues and guidance of which you
should be aware?
• SDLT mitigation schemes: What are the key pitfalls associated with the HMRC crackdown?
• Private trusts of land: How do you spot when the real beneficial ownership has been hidden? What
other risks are posed?
• Powers of attorney: How can you spot signs of misuse and what steps do you need to take to protect
the donor?
• Bankrupt or insolvent clients: What are the biggest risks and how do you arrange for bankruptcy entries
to be removed?
• Dispositions involving charities: Which aspects of the Charities Act 2011 do you need to be alert to?
• Dispositions by company in liquidation: What key issues need to be addressed in the conveyancing
process?
This introduction to residential conveyancing is designed for support staff and paralegals who carry out
some conveyancing work but who need to have a deeper understanding of the process. The pressure on
conveyancing fees in today’s challenging market combined with the fact that conveyancing work still
represents a key area of risk for firms is a toxic mix. This seminar will focus on the risk areas and will give
unqualified delegates the chance to ask questions and to learn in a supportive environment.
Some prior knowledge of the conveyancing process will be assumed.
What you will learn:
This half day seminar will cover the following:
• Pitfalls in drafting the sale contract
• Lender’s instructions and the CML Handbook
• Exchange - what it means and whether you should do it
• The importance of the priority period
• What are undertakings and should you give them?
• Challenging clients
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London 17 Apr, 9 Oct
Birmingham
21 May
Leeds
12 Jun
Manchester
18 Sept
Bristol
23 Sept
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Lorraine Richardson. Lorraine is a practising solicitor based in East Anglia who has delivered legal
training for many years. Lorraine was instrumental in the design and delivery of the Land Registry
Qualification in addition to delivering many property related solicitors’ CPD courses. Lorraine is the co-editor
of the popular Law Society publication “Conveyancing Forms and Procedures”.
Duration: London
Manchester
Cost: Conveyancing Traumas
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
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£230 + VAT
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IT
Development & Highways
A Blueprint for Planning
& Property Lawyers
Introduction
Introduction
The one piece of law they don’t teach in law school is Murphy’s Law - if something can go wrong it will go
wrong.
As a conveyancer you will know that things do go wrong, traumas, nightmares, disasters. Almost certainly
it isn’t your fault, but your clients expect you to deal with it. How you deal with it will determine whether the
trauma becomes a disaster for you, the client, or neither.
Clients blame everyone except themselves; if they are looking for someone to blame (and where there is
blame there is a claim), will your file stand up to the intensive scrutiny of the litigators? Are the warnings that
you give your clients wide enough to protect you?
It is very expensive to learn by your mistakes, in fact these days you literally cannot afford to make a mistake.
There will be plenty of time to discuss problems, and for delegates to advise how they solved their problems.
What you will learn:
• Misunderstood undertakings
• ‘Missing’ mortgage advances
• Delays, notices to complete, rescission
• Joint ownership problems
• Death of a client
• Problems with deposits
• Land Registry ‘problems’ and fraud
• And many more
SPEAKER.
The proposals for new developments may require the extinguishment of existing highways and/or the creation of
additional highways. Significant landownership issues may arise as well as unusual problems regarding the stopping
up of existing highways and access to such highways, as well as the adoption of newly created highways. There are
many issues that those involved in such a process must be aware of and give appropriate consideration.Who will
undertake the work in the highway? What provisions should an agreement between a developer and the highway
authority contain? What additional road safety and traffic management measures are to be taken into consideration?
These are issues that need to be resolved at an early stage.This seminar will also explore the topical issues such as
commuted sums for future maintenance of highways and highway structures.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• The drafting of relevant documentation highlighting
such issues as planning conditions and the likely
contents of planning and highway agreements
• Planning conditions and highways - Impact on
development
• Planning obligations - Agreements and
undertakings under section 106 of the Town and
Country Planning Act 1990
• Section 278 Agreements - The detailed provisions
concerning the contributions made by developers
towards highway works - when payments should
be made, who will undertake the work, the timing
of works, and a guide to the essential provisions
• Highway Licences - Licences for developers to
construct bridges and other buildings over
highways
• Temporary Traffic Orders and notices - Restrictions
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on the use of highways for development purposes
- section 14 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
Stopping up and Extinguishment of Highways and
Access to Highways - adopting the appropriate
legal provisions - Orders made by the Secretary of
State under section 247 Town and Country
Planning Act 1990 - Orders under Sections 116 and
124 of the Highways Act 1980
The “Advance Payments Code” - Payments to be
made by owners of new buildings in respect of
street works
Adoption of Private Streets - Power of highway
authorities to adopt private streets as highways
maintainable at public expense - Section 38
agreements
Reference will be made to the new National
Planning Policy Framework insofar as it relates to
Planning conditions and obligations only
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Chris Bramham was a Principal Legal Officer with Leeds City Council with more than 38 years local government
experience. He is a specialist in highways and planning related matters and has been directly involved in a number
of local public inquiries. An experienced lecturer he has in depth knowledge of highway law as well as over 25 years
practical expertise.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
Manchester 9 Apr
London
Bristol
19 Jun
Birmingham
Leeds
7 Oct
£207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
Cost: Duration: 23 Apr, 29 Oct
23 Jul
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9.30am – 12.45pm or 2.00pm - 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
22 Mar, 21 Oct (pm)
18 Apr (AM)
IM
9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
London
16 Apr, 3 Oct Leeds
Bristol
6 Jun
Birmingham
Manchester 3 Sept Cost: £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
9 May
9 Jul
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01610984
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Dealing with Tricky
Conveyancing Issues Part 1
Dealing with Tricky
Conveyancing Issues Part 2
Introduction
Introduction
If you have recently had the feeling that the conveyancing files that you deal with seem to be increasingly
fraught with difficulties and pitfalls, you are not alone.
The first of this two part series aims to address potentially explosive issues that can arise in property
transactions.
What you will learn:
The main points covered will include:
• Conveyancing on relationship breakdown of co-owners, including cohabitants and friends - The
growing importance of declarations of trust
• Protecting lender’s interests - Circumstances when persons not in residence might be in occupation
• Consequences of failure to serve a valid notice to complete and of premature rescission
• Acting for a distressed seller: obtaining lender consents to negative equity sale. Are sale-and-rent-back
schemes a credible alternative?
• Mortgagee in possession sales: common standard contract terms and entries on the register
• Leasehold transactions: how to register when management companies late in supplying
post-completion certificates, pitfalls of an absent landlord and maisonette leases. Should you be
concerned if an application for registration is cancelled?
• Problematic entries on local and drainage searches
If you have recently had the feeling that the conveyancing files that you deal with seem to be increasingly
fraught with difficulties and pitfalls, you are not alone.
In the second of this two part series, this seminar aims to address potentially explosive issues that can arise
in property transactions.
What you will learn:
The main points covered will include:
• Rights of way and parking rights: how adequate are the rights, latent rights, unclear scope or route,
missing or uncoloured plans
• Steps to take if lender provides inaccurate redemption statement post-undertaking to redeem
• Complying with key mortgagee requirements with regards to title
• Problematic covenants, such as where prior consent to building is needed
• Identifying and minimising the effect of undue influence on clients at risk
• Dealing with revocation of mortgage offer and adverse bankruptcy entries
• Explaining to clients the legal consequences of conveyancing risks
• Purchasing property from bankrupt or trustee in bankruptcy - Dealing with possibility of undervalue
transaction being set aside
• New build purchases - Remedies available to buyer in case of delay by builder or departure from plans
and specifications
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. As a former practitioner, Stephen has represented both business and private
property clients and has been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. As a former practitioner, Stephen has represented both business and private
property clients and has been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
7 Mar, 10 Oct
Birmingham 16 Apr
Leeds
14 May
Bristol
9 Jul
Manchester 19 Sept £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
7 Mar, 10 Oct
Birmingham 16 Apr
Leeds
14 May
Bristol
9 Jul
Manchester 19 Sept £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: SmartPlan Holders
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Energy Efficiency of Homes,
Drainage, Wind & Flood
NEW
Implications for Conveyancers
Introduction
There is an on-going drive by the Government to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and the
resources that they consume. This has led to a number of recent developments that conveyancers need to
know about. This seminar examines the practical and legal implications of these new laws for residential
property lawyers.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• The Green Deal: Qualifying energy improvements, disclosure, payment liability
• Adoption of private sewers and lateral drains: build over agreements, unadopted drains, updating
public sewer map
• Effect of changes on new and existing section 104 agreements
• Solar panels on roofs: terms of lease, feed-in tariffs, lender requirements, rights to light, leasehold
properties
• Septic tanks: permit and registration requirements in force 2012
• Registration of mines and minerals, including registration issues
• New rights for householders to install micro wind turbines and other air source heat pumps on their
premises
• Ever-increasing flood risk: raising enquiries and advising clients
• Energy performance certificates: new rules and forthcoming changes
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: Manchester
London
Cost: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
14 Mar, 5 Sep
18 Mar, 31 Oct
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
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£230 + VAT
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Fighting Conveyancing Fires
Between Exchange & Completion
NEW
Introduction
The time between exchange and completion is frequently stressful and traumatic for the client and the
conveyancer alike. When problems arise, decisions have to be made quickly and anxious clients sometimes
think that their legal adviser is unnecessarily throwing spanners in the works.
While compromises often have to be made, hasty decisions can have lasting consequences.
This seminar will enable busy practitioners to reflect on potential responses to a number of critical situations.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• Whether you should accept discrepancies between the two parts of a contract and how not to vary
an exchanged property contract
• How to manage risk in providing and obtaining professional undertakings
• How to ensure that the deed is properly executed in unusual situations and identifying when the
buyer should also execute deed
• What to do if your client’s mortgage offer is revoked or reduced - Addressing concerns arising
where lender is separately represented
• How to respond to death or bankruptcy of a party - Dealing with damage to the property Contents left or taken in breach of contract
• What can be done when occupiers have an overriding interest or registered home rights?
• Avoiding common pitfalls associated with Notices to Complete and new build contracts
• How to prepare for the assignment of a long lease: apportionments, missing information,
considering a retention
• What to do when the transfer/lease plan does not reflect the contract plan?
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. As a former practitioner, Stephen has represented both business and private
property clients and has been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
19 Mar, 23 Oct
Leeds
10 Apr
Birmingham20 May
Bristol
11 Jul
Manchester 10 Sep
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: SmartPlan Holders
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The Mill House, 6 Worsley Road, Worsley, Manchester M28 2NL
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Flat & Apartment Leases
Tips, Traps & Key Risk Factors
High Value Residential
Property: SDLT & ARPT
NEW
Introduction
Introduction
Leasehold conveyancing generally presents a greater level of risk and responsibility than most freehold
transactions do. As the economy emerges from recession and mortgage finance is rationed, it is likely that
the sale and purchase of flats will become a key growth area, particularly among first time buyers.
What you will learn:
This full day seminar will explore the ins and outs of this growth area and will cover the following:
• The provisions which tend to create the greatest risks - Options for varying the lease
• When the lease is not compliant with lender’s instructions - Incomplete or missing leases
• Reporting on replies to enquiries by seller and management company
• Buying off-plan - Risks faced by buyer - Remedies - Consumer Code for Home Builders
• Selling an existing lease - Contract provisions, apportionments, notices and retentions
• Buying a flat in a small converted building - statutory consents, enforcing covenants, absent joint
freeholder
• Missing and inactive landlords - Unobtainable receipts and consents - Enforcement of covenants - Lack
of provision of services
• Management companies - Dissolved companies - Delay in issuing post-completion certificates Excessive fees
• Statutory protection available to lessees - an overview of the law
• Shared ownership leases - Key points to consider when acting on the purchase
• The role of indemnity insurance
On 11 December 2012, extracts of the draft Finance Bill were released. They contain the majority of the
legislation on the forth-coming annual charge (called the Annual Residential Property Tax) - a new tax on
ownership of residential property worth more than £2m by companies and certain other ‘non-natural
persons’. They also make provision for the rules on the super rate of SDLT (15%) to be amended. Those
amendments are significant, effectively reducing the scope of the super rate to individual owner-occupiers.
However, there are numerous conditions and withdrawal provisions. The draft legislation on the associated
CGT changes was published in January 2013.
The three sets of rules are designed to encourage the removal of high-value residential property from
companies (‘de-enveloping’). Advisers in this market-space need to consider in what circumstances to
recommend de-enveloping and how to envelope.
This seminar aims to give such advisers the knowledge they need, with emphasis on SDLT and ARPT.
What you will learn:
This half day seminar will cover the following:
• The scope of the SDLT super rate and how it is proposed to be amended in 2013
• The scope of ARPT and its peculiar compliance regime
• In brief, the proposed changes to CGT
• Issues to consider when deciding whether or not to de-envelope
• How to de-envelope tax-efficiently
• Issues to consider when structuring new purchases of residential property
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. As a former practitioner, Stephen has represented both business and private
property clients and has been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
Manchester 9 Apr London
23 Apr, 22 Oct
Leeds
16 May Birmingham 23 May
Bristol
10 Jul £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
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Sean Randall is a leading stamp taxes specialist and Director in Deloitte’s Stamp Tax Consultancy. He has
over twelve years’ experience advising on, amongst other things, complex, multi-party property transactions
and property-investment fund structuring. He is a non-practising barrister and a Chartered Tax Advisor, the
editor of Sergeant and Sims on Stamp Taxes (published by Butterworths), and a Council member of the
Stamp Taxes Practitioners’ Group.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
12 Apr, 30 Oct
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: SmartPlan Holders
What is a ‘Highway’? Do you know? Your clients purchasing properties on new estates would be horrified to know
that their access road is unlikely to ever become adopted despite the existence of s.38 agreements and bonds. You
may be blamed for failing to warn them of the risks they face.
Whether a highway adjoins land and the status of any road or track that affects it is of vital importance. Development
sites may be worthless without access and domestic properties may be unsaleable if they do not abut an adopted
highway. Whether a road is a highway can be difficult to ascertain and local authorities may be unable to help.
What you will learn:
What is a highway - roads, ways, footpaths, bridleways
How are highways created? Statutory and common law methods
Ownership of highways & the position of the highway authority
The problems with s.38 agreements and the spectre of unadopted roads
How wide and deep is the highway? What about grass verges and ditches adjoining?
What about footpaths, bridleways and restricted byways?
Powers to apply for the stopping up and diversion of highways
Public versus private rights
Powers of local highway authorities in relation to highways
Property Development issues
Are you able to advise your conveyancing clients on the ramifications of Chancel Repair Liability? In some cases it
can be a very big deal, so this seminar provides the perfect opportunity to find out just how to deal with Chancel
Repair Liability - before it is too late.
This practical seminar aimed at property lawyers, Filex, conveyancers and fee earners will explore the origins of
Chancel Repair Liability, issues such as indemnity, insurance and how to contest the liability.
• How do you deal with Chancel Liability as and when a liability arises?
• How would your clients avoid it?
• What does the future hold for Chancel Repair Liability beyond October 2013?
This seminar will utilise both seminar and workshop based learning to enable attendees to engage with, and
understand this obscure, and seldom discussed but now increasingly relevant legal concept.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• How to research Chancel Repair Liability – Where to look? What documents need to be examined? The
different types of searches and the limitations of respective searches.
• The relationship with registered and unregistered land
• How to avoid it – considering issues such as indemnity, insurance, how to contest the liability
• How to deal with the liability as and when it arises
• What does the future holds for Chancel repair Liability?
• The impact of The Land Registration Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2003 coming into force in October
2013
• What are the implications for the future of chancel repair liability? Does the liability simply disappear? How
does the 2003 Order affect purchases made prior to 13 October 2013?
• Consideration will be given to Aston Cantlow PCC v Wallbank.
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Hannah Mackinlay, LLB MA, Solicitor has over 25 years experience dealing with commercial property, gained at
senior and partner level with major firms such as Pinsents and Shoosmiths and working for local authorities. As well
as acting for major landowners, local authorities, development agencies, national house builders, banks, building
societies and PLCs, she has also dealt with high street commercial lease work and small developers.
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What Every Conveyancer Needs to Know
Introduction
Introduction
Duration: Manchester
Bristol
Leeds
Cost: IM
How to Deal with Chancel
Repair Liability
Highway Issues for
Property Lawyers
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Season Ticket Holders Non Season Ticket Holders
9.30am - 12.45pm or 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
25 Mar (pm)
London
9 Apr, 7 Oct (pm)
3 Jun (am)
Birmingham 15 Jul
(am)
2 Sept (am)
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
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£230 + VAT
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0161 793 0984
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James Normington, Barrister, Park Court Chambers. James is a Chancery and Commercial practitioner. As Junior
Counsel to the Crown, he also undertakes work for Government departments, agencies and local authorities
including judicial review before the High Court (Administrative Division). James is an experienced practitioner
dealing in Ecclesiastical Law and has a special interest in Chancel Repair Liability and law relating to burial grounds.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
London
19 Apr, 27 Sep
Cost: £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
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information@mblseminars.com
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Land Registry Fraud & Disputes
Rectification, Adjudication, Objections
Land Registry Practice & Procedure
Update - What You Need To Know
Introduction
Introduction
Property fraud is now a huge problem for the Land Registry and practitioners alike. The Land Registry have
had to change their rules to counter the fraudsters; practitioners need to be aware and adapt.
Not every application to the Land Registry goes smoothly; what do you do if they refuse to complete your
application?
How do you advise your client who has just been notified that the Land Registry intend to remove some of
his title to register it to someone else?
This seminar will explain the basic options and procedures available when things go wrong; disagreements
between clients and disagreements between you and the Registry. Knowing how it works is essential
background information and may help the practitioner to spot problems in advance and avoid resorting to
arguments afterwards.
What you will learn:
• Illustrative Cases on Land Registry Decisions
• Rectification
• Objections
• Sections 29 and 58 Land Registration Act
2002
• Disputes
• Indemnity
• The Role of the Adjudicator
• Fraud and Forgeries
• A Typical Case Summary
• Lack of Care and Contributory Negligence
• A Look at some of the Arbitrators Decisions
• Right to Apply to the Court
• Who can become an Adjudicator
• The New Land Registration Rules in brief
SPEAKER.
Practitioners are all too familiar with having to spend additional non-billable time responding to Land
Registry requisitions or cancellations of applications. Since February 2011, there have been numerous
changes to Land Registry practice (which alone has resulted in at least 20 important revisions to their practice
guides). In addition to this, there have been numerous Land Registry Adjudicator decisions that also have
key implications for practitioners.Trying to sift through this minefield of information is time-consuming. That
is why this seminar has been designed to bring you up to date with the major practical insights and
implications arising from these developments.
What you will learn:
• Exclusions of mines and minerals
This seminar will cover the following topics:
• Searching the Index of Proprietor’s Names
• The amended guidance on leasehold
enfranchisement and lease extension
• Issues arising from key Adjudicator decisions
on matters such as
• The effect of the Charities Act 2011
• Prescriptive Rights
• Effect on leasehold rights of upgrading to
absolute title
• Section 22 charges for care home costs
• The practice of noting leases with less than
• Boundary disputes
one year to run
• Beneficial interests, trusts and restrictions
• Update on statements of truth
• Alteration & rectification of the register
• Mortgagee in possession sales: entries that are
• Adverse Possession
not automatically cancelled on completion
• Land Registry’s recently expanded guidance on
plans
Paul Tobias, Solicitor, ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of all
types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice.
He brings many years of practical experience to his presentations.
SPEAKER.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
13 Mar, 17 Oct
Birmingham 15 May
Leeds
26 Jun
Bristol
12 Sep
Manchester 26 Sep £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: Duration: London
Bristol
Leeds
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Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Leasehold Enfranchisement
Whether you act for landlords or tenants, enfranchisement - the right of a tenant to obtain the freehold - can
be a minefield for the unwary. Using practical case studies, this three hour intermediate course will guide you
safely through the statutory requirements whilst avoiding the potential pitfalls and bear traps that await both
landlord and tenant.
What you will learn:
Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban
- LVT or court?
Development Act 1993 - Collective
- The property to be transferred - common
enfranchisement claims & lease extension:
parts, caretaker’s flats and Re 29 Eaton Place
- Valuation and the deferment rate - the
• Lease extension
position post Sportelli
- Who qualifies? Howard de Walden v Aggio
- Preparing and serving notices
Enfranchising houses - Leasehold Reform Act
- Terms of the new lease & valuation
1967:
• Acquiring the freehold
• Does the Act apply?
- Can a claim be made?
- Qualifying tenants and exempt landlords
- Qualifying buildings, exempt buildings and
- Qualifying buildings - the importance of
making the percentages work
‘designed or adapted for living in’
- Qualifying tenants - getting the numbers
• Notices, counter-notices, valuation principles
right
and issues
- Drafting the participation agreement and
• ‘Commercial enfranchisement’? A review of
getting the initial notice right
the position post Boss Holdings Ltd v
- Proposing a realistic price?
Grosvenor West End Properties and Grosvenor
- The landlord’s counter-notice:
v Prospect
- Leaseback provisions - Cawthorne v
Other rights:
Hamdan and other defects to avoid
• Tenants’ pre-emption rights and the right to
- Rejecting the claim Majorstake Ltd v Curtis
manage - a brief overview
- The difficulty with time limits
SPEAKER.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey, Solicitor, formerly a partner and head of property litigation at Denton Hall, acting for
many blue chip clients. She is a co-author of Tenants’ Pre-emption Rights: A Landlord’s Guide to the Landlord and
Tenant Act 1987, and has written extensively for a number of legal and property journals. Sarah is co-author with
Peta Dollar of Mixed Use and Residential Tenants’ Rights: The Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 and Leasehold
Enfranchisement (Elsevier 2009).
Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
26 Mar, 25 Sep
Cost: £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Leases & the Land Registry
Avoid The Pitfalls
How to Avoid the Pitfalls & Bear Traps
Introduction
9.30am – 12.45pm or 2.00pm - 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
8 Mar (am), 31 Oct (am) Manchester
30 Apr (am) 26 Jun (pm)
Birmingham 8 Jul (pm)
15 Jul (pm)
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Introduction
Unlike other kinds of transactions not all leases need to be registered, whether at the grant or on assignment
- it is confusing from the outset.
On assignment of an unregistered lease what do you do if there is no plan on the lease? What kind of plan
will the ‘Registry’ require? How will they deal with easements?
This seminar explains Land Registry practice and procedure relating to Leases. As such it may serve to help
you avoid the many pitfalls which might otherwise lead to rejection of your application and the sometimes
insurmountable problems of trying to put things right afterwards.
Maybe because of staff cutbacks you are having to deal with more leasehold work or as a more experienced
conveyancer you are looking for an intermediate revision. Get it right first time and save your time and
wasted costs.
What you will learn:
• Leases Incapable of Registration
• Registering Leases and Leasehold Interests
• Options contained in Leases
• Assignments and Transfers
• Restrictive Covenants
• Consents
• Lease Plans
• Variations of Leases
• Prescribed lease clauses
• Ending a Lease
• Easements in Leases
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor, ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of all
types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice.
He brings many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London 13 Mar, 17 Oct Birmingham
Leeds
26 Jun
Bristol
Manchester 26 Sep
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
Cost: SmartPlan Holders
15 May
12 Sep
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The Mill House, 6 Worsley Road, Worsley, Manchester M28 2NL
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Legal Issues When Buying &
Selling Local Authority Land
Introduction
The property transactions of local authorities are subject to strict rules and review by judges. This raises
issues which simply do not apply to private sector land transactions. It is important that all those dealing
with land transactions, whether in the private or public sector, are aware of the differences to ensure that
these transactions cannot be challenged in the courts. It is particularly important that private sector lawyers
for whom this sector may be new do not fall into the pitfalls.
This seminar examines some of the wide range of issues which affect these transactions. It deals not only
with legal issues such as the restrictions on how local authorities sell land but also with the practical due
diligence and papertrail which is needed in today’s climate.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover:
• What is best value? - issues for joint ventures
where the local authority contribute land and
• Nature of local authorities, correct decision
the private sector funds and skills
making procedures enabling decisions to be
judge proofed.
• Authorised disposals at undervalue - General
and specific consents - the answer to many
• Understanding the difference between private
problems
and public sector legal remedies - Estoppel
versus Judicial Review, Meaning of
• Local authority powers to override restrictive
“reasonable” in the public law context
covenants and private rights in land i.e. rights
of light and rights of way
• Local government powers and restrictions,
including the recent changes in the Localism
• New rules for planning agreements and
Act 2011: the new general power of
compulsory purchase as a development tool
competence
• Some recent procurement issues affecting land
• The power to sell land in Section 123 Local
transactions - Auroux
Government Act
Love Thy Neighbour?
A Guide to Boundary & Neighbour Disputes
Introduction
There are an increasing number of disputes arising in relation to boundaries. Land Registry plans do not
define boundaries and the title deed may have been lost, resulting in disputes where the costs involved are
disproportionate to the values of the strips of land involved.
Solicitors are often blamed by clients and the courts for causing these problems. This course looks at the
main types of boundary and neighbour disputes, with video material including interviews of experts and
barristers dealing with this subject.
What you will learn:
• Where is the boundary?
• Limitations of LR maps, the general boundaries rule and s.62 LPA25
• Other sources of information
• Admissibility of extrinsic evidence such as meetings and notes
• The importance of considering the physical world and what can be inferred from existing boundary
features
• Boundary presumptions in relation to hedges, fences, walls, etc
• Adverse possession claims
• Use of experts, strategies for resolving disputes & mediation schemes
• Disputes over rights and easements, access to adjoining land and party walls
• Disputes over covenants and restrictions
• Disputes over trees and hedges
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Sandra Banks started her career in the public sector but then joined Denton Wilde Sapte where she
became a partner and joint head of Planning and Public Law. Specialising in development and public law,
she is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. She then moved to Cobbetts in Birmingham and is a
highly popular presenter.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
14 Mar, 17 Oct Leeds 21 May
Birmingham 26 Jun
Bristol 10 Sep
Manchester 25 Sep
Cost: £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
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Hannah Mackinlay, LLB MA, Solicitor has over 25 years experience dealing with commercial property,
gained at senior and partner level with major firms such as Pinsents and Shoosmiths and working for local
authorities. As well as acting for major landowners, local authorities, development agencies, national house
builders, banks, building societies and PLCs, she has also dealt with high street commercial lease work and
small developers.
Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
10 Apr, 8 Oct
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Making the Switch?
Commercial Conveyancing for
Residential Property Lawyers
NEW
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Mistakes, Mortgage Fraud &
Negligence - A Guide for
Conveyancers
Introduction
Introduction
When your traditional residential conveyancing work gets scarce you can’t afford to either turn other work
away, or send your client to another firm and then expect them to come back to you again afterwards. You
have to be able to deal with it yourself.
Maybe you are moving on from the residential property department to the commercial property department?
This seminar is aimed at those who deal with residential conveyancing but don’t do much, or any,
commercial conveyancing but who may now have to. This full day course deals with all aspects of
commercial property, highlighting the differences between residential and commercial property transactions.
What you will learn:
• The Standard Commercial Property Conditions of Sale (Second Edition)
• VAT
• New property ‘guarantees’ - construction law principles
• Assignment of commercial leases
• Consents and licenses
• TUPE
• Environmental aspects
• EPCs
• Regulatory requirements
• SDLT - Property v ‘Goodwill’
This seminar will consider claims for conveyancing mistakes by both clients and lenders and also examine
the issue of solicitors being involved with fraud in conveyancing transactions.
• Can you safely advise one joint owner?
• The red flags to look out for
• In what circumstances can you accept an undertaking?
What you will learn:
The seminar will cover the following:
• Negligence based claims: Common errors and how to avoid them,Proper attendance and file notes,
Local Searches including lack of building regulations and planning,Covenants and easements
problems an overview, Searches and the Priority period, Land Registry Notices and Restrictions
problems an overview ,Redemption Statements, Joint ownership problems, What should you be
doing to protect clients’ interests and your own interests?, Can you safely advise one joint owner?
• Lender claims: Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality Chapters 3 & 4 of the 2011 Code of conduct,
Chapter 11 on undertakings, When should you give an undertaking?, When can you accept an
undertaking?, The importance of the Certificate of Title, How does it fit in with the CML Lenders’
Handbook?, How do they help to avoid mortgage fraud?, The Land Registry and Property Fraud, The
dangers of bogus solicitors firms,How can you spot them?
• Mortgage fraud and money laundering: The mortgage fraud chain, More mortgage fraud cases are
coming before the Courts, How can conveyancers avoid becoming involved?,What are the warning
signs?, How are frauds perpetrated?, More money laundering and mortgage fraud warning signs,
When do my reporting obligations arise to lenders and SOCA?
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Denis Cameron, a Law Society Council Member and a member of the Regulatory Affairs Board and also a
member of the Board’s Rules and Ethics Committee. Denis has been involved throughout the development
of the SRA’s important regulatory changes which came into effect on the 6 October 2011. Throughout his
career, Denis has specialised in residential conveyancing and probate work. He was President of the
Blackpool and Fylde District Law Society in 1996 and was Honorary Secretary of that Society from 1998 until
2002. Denis joined the Law Society Council as member for the Constituency of Central Lancashire and
Northern Greater Manchester in July 1999 and still retains that seat on the Council having been re-elected
on three occasions.
Duration: London Bristol
Leeds
Cost: Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
5 Mar, 12 Sep
Leeds
16 Apr
Bristol
16 May
Birmingham 17 Jul
Manchester 24 Oct
Cost: £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Manchester
11 Jun
Birmingham
23 Oct
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25 Jul
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Mortgage Fraud - Identifying &
Reducing the Risks
Planning Law & Practice
Get Up to Date
NEW
NEW
Introduction
Introduction
The easy availability of mortgage funding leading to the banking crisis and the decline in property values has
revealed a number of cases of mortgage fraud.
It is widely believed that there are a number of significant mortgage frauds which have yet to manifest
themselves.
What you will learn:
Mortgage fraud can take many forms - from false or misleading information in a mortgage application
form to forged leases. This practical course will help you identify and therefore reduce the potential risks
involved.
• What exactly is fraud?
• How it can be identified?
• Examples of fraud
• How the risk can be reduced
• Detailed case study of a mortgage fraud and the lessons to be learnt
• Consideration of the reforms to law and practice
SPEAKER.
John Hughes, Solicitor, Partner at Needham and James. John specialises in banking and property finance
and has over 35 years experience of acting for lenders. He recently acted as an expert witness in two large
mortgage fraud cases. He is a council member of NARA (Non Administrative Receivers Association) and
author of Law of Property Act Receivers: Law & Practice.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
17 Oct
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This seminar will provide examples of the key legal issues that property lawyers will face when dealing with
planning matters.It is aimed at experienced property lawyers (both residential and commercial) who want to expand
their knowledge of the current planning matters which will affect their clients. It will also be of interest to specialist
planning lawyers who wish to keep up to date with their specialism.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following :
• Localism Act 18 months on. What price is Neighbourhood Planning?
• NPPF one year on and its effect on LPAs Plan making and decision making
• Proposed changes to PD rights including extending rights for residential development above shops and offices,
and proposed changes to allow re- use of commercial and industrial buildings
• Extending time for extension of Planning permissions
• Information to accompany Outline Planning permissions
• FOI requests and dealing with commercial interest exceptions
• S 106 re-negotiations
• Enterprise and regulatory reform bill proposals for Heritage Assets
• Consultation on improving Listed Building Consents
• Current cases on all aspects of planning law and practice such as:
• Judicial Review, Extension of time and costs order R(on the application of Halebank Parish Council ) v
Halton BC (2012)
• Factors to be taken into account by LPA when making a planning decision - Health and Safety Executive v
Wolverhampton CC (2012)
• Preference of S 106 over conditions for financial benefits - Elliott and Pyne v SS DCLG and LB Bromley
(2012)
• Time limits for challenge of Development Plan - Barker v Hambleton DC (2012)
• Village Greens; prevention of registration - R (on the application of Stephen Malpass) v Durham CC (2012)
SPEAKER.
David Forbes, David has a national reputation on Planning and Environment Law, and is a member of the Law
Society’s Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Duration: 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
15 Mar, 25 Oct
Leeds
19 Apr
Birmingham 25 Jun
Bristol
2 Jul
Manchester 9 Sep
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Planning Law for Property
Lawyers - The Complete Toolkit
Introduction
This full day seminar has been specifically designed for lawyers who practice commercial property,
residential property or both. It will also be of interest to those acting for developers and also those
who are thinking of branching out from their present discipline and specialising in Planning Law. It
will bring delegates completely up to date with problems arising in day to day matters.Time will be
allowed for an open question and answer session and delegates are invited to bring examples of
any problems and these will be addressed throughout the day.
What you will learn:
• Do I need planning permission and how do I get it?
• If I don’t need Planning permission, how do I get the LPA to acknowledge this?
• What can the LPA require by way of S106 and CUIL contributions from my client?
• What about Building Regulations? When are these needed?
• What do I do about appeals now the rules have changed?
• If I act for residents associations, can they object to, and challenge planning permissions?
• How can I advise my clients to make the most of their property assets?
• How can I save existing planning permissions and get the LPA to confirm they are saved
• Practical examples, and cases will be dealt with throughout, and all current Government advice and
case law will be considered
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Public Rights of Way
A Definitive Guide
Introduction
Footpaths and Bridleways together with other lesser known highways are generally referred to as ‘public
rights of way’ and the provisions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 are applicable to these types as
highway in addition to the provisions of the Highways Act 1980.
Public rights of way can be particularly contentious issues in circumstances where members of the public are
seeking to establish, through a legal process, that a right of way exists over land where the owner disputes
such existence.
The proposals for new developments may require the diversion or extinguishment of existing rights of way.
Significant landownership issues may arise as well as unusual problems regarding the diversion or
extinguishment of the existing highway.
This course is designed to demonstrate the issues involved both from a landowners perspective and
members of the public seeking to safeguard the rights that they allege to currently enjoy. The role of the local
authority who is obliged to consider applications to modify the definitive map and statement is also
explained.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following topics:
• What is a public right of way? - Definitions, the surveying authority’s duties and the creation of rights of
way
• Extinguishment and diversion - Highway and Planning Act Powers
• Lawful and Unlawful Interference - Protecting public rights of way
• Modification Orders - The Definitive Map and Statement and consideration of evidence
• Schemes and Order - Sections 14 and 125 Highways Act 1980 and Cycle Tracks
• Compensation - The statutory rights to compensate, when claims can be rejected
• Legal Challenge - issues that will make an authority vulnerable to challenge, Judicial Review
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
David Forbes David has a national reputation on Planning and Environment Law, and is a member of the
Law Society’s Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Chris Bramham was a Principal Legal Officer with Leeds City Council with more than 38 years local
government experience. He is a specialist in highways and planning related matters and has acted as legal
advisor in connection with applications to amend the definitive map and statement. He has been directly
involved in a number of local public inquiries on a variety of issues. An experienced lecturer he has in depth
knowledge of highway law as well as over 25 years practical expertise.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
Manchester 13 Mar
London 24 Apr, 29 Oct
Birmingham 14 Jun
Bristol
5 Jul
Leeds
3 Sept
Cost: £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
London
25 Apr, 15 Oct
Leeds
Bristol
20 Jun
Birmingham
Manchester 19 Sep
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£460 + VAT
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Quick Conveyancing Update
3 Hours
Introduction
Intended for busy conveyancers who may struggle to spend a full day away from the office, this half day
seminar will quickly cover the recent main changes that impinge on your practice.
The content will be regularly updated to take account of the most recent changes, including the latest Court
of Appeal and Supreme Court decisions from the last quarter of 2011 onwards.
What you will learn:
• The latest cases on service charges
• SDLT changes and avoidance schemes
• CQS - 12 months on - where are we now?
• Planning law changes
• Lenders’ Handbook - separate representation
• Recent cases on practical aspects of
conveyancing, including:
• Joint ownership
• Searches - equitable mortgages - more
things to worry about
• Completion arrangements
• Occupation as an overriding interest
• Easements and acquisition and
extinguishment
• Boundary disputes
• The Lenders Handbook Part 3 - separate
representation
SPEAKER.
Residential Landlord & Tenant
Contentious Issues
Introduction
The property downturn has seen a sharp increase in landlord and tenancy disputes including repossession
actions, deposit disputes and service charge claims.
There have also been dramatic changes in Landlord and Tenancy law not least under the provisions of the
Housing Act 2004. Clients who get it wrong may struggle to repossess their properties and can face huge
penalties.
This high impact one day intermediate level course is presented by Clive Sanders, a Solicitor and Adjudicator
with his own portfolio of residential properties. It is designed to provide an essential guide to residential
landlord and tenancy law for all property lawyers involved in potentially contentious matters.
What you will learn:
• What is involved with the new Tenancy
Deposit Scheme and what happens if your
client gets it wrong?
• How’s your knowledge of forfeiture and
repossession?
• Get to grips with the new HMO legislation and
its severe penalties
• The new Dwelling Houses (Execution of
Possession Orders by Mortgagees) Regulations
2010
• Do you know the differences between all the
types of residential leases?
• Don’t get caught by unfair tenancy terms how you can avoid them
• What you can and can’t do about problem
tenants
• Do you understand the role of the LVT?
• What you need to know in challenging service
charge demands
• Landlord repairing obligations - fundamentals
you need to know
• Collective enfranchisement - what are the
pitfalls?
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 13 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Clive Sanders, qualified as a solicitor in 1990 having completed his training in a City law firm. He
subsequently worked in the property litigation departments at two large firms dealing with all aspects of
property disputes. In 2000 he started his own property investment business building up a large portfolio of
buy-to-let properties. Being both a solicitor and landlord he is in a perfect position to advise fully on the
property letting business.
Duration: London
Bristol
Leeds
Cost: Duration: London
Bristol
Leeds
Cost: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
12 Mar, 24 Sep
Manchester 13 Mar
20 Jun
Birmingham11 Jul
15 Oct
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Residential Service Charges
The Works
Introduction
The 1985 Landlord and Tenant Act introduced protection for tenants on service charges, but it was ‘full of
holes’. Subsequent legislation has patched all those holes; it is now watertight.
Do you act for tenants who want to dispute their service charges? If so, do you know exactly what your
clients can and can’t do?
Do you act for landlords? If they get things wrong in the early stages it could cost them a fortune. Could your
landlord client afford to lose over £250,000 by getting it wrong? Knowing the rules and options will enable
you to advise your clients properly.
What you will learn:
This seminar covers the basic definitions to the most recent cases, which show how the courts interpret the
legislation. It will include the simple options to dispute the reasonableness and the more complicated - is it
payable at all? The seminar will also cover the longer term solutions for disgruntled tenants.
• Definitions under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985, as amended
• Basic requirements - reasonableness, notices
• Spent service charges
• Major works & long term contracts - strict rules on notices, consultation
• Appointing a manager under the 1987 Act
• Right to Manage Companies
9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
9 Apr, 30 Oct
Manchester
19 Jun
Birmingham
11 Sep
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Restrictive Covenants on Land
A Masterclass
This masterclass is limited to 25 delegates
Introduction
This intermediate level course is designed as an in-depth guide to restrictive covenants on land, from
creation to discharge. It will address the practical issues which arise in relation to the enforcement of
covenants, the interpretation of covenants, when covenants will lapse or be extinguished, and how they can
be modified or discharged by an application to the Lands Tribunal.
What you will learn:
• What is a restrictive covenant, why do they
• Lapsed covenants - Covenants whose time has
exist and how are they used?
passed
• Creation of covenants - Formalities, Parties and
• Extinguishing covenants – Release,
Building schemes
Acquiescence in breaches, change of character,
merger of titles
• The Burden of the covenant
• Discharge and modification by the Lands
• The Benefit of the covenant – Annexation/
Tribunal – Statutory grounds and procedure
Classification/Assignment
• Remedies - Damages/Injunctions/ Damages in
• Interpretation of covenants - Who, what,
lieu/Declarations - positive and negative
where and how?
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 13 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Daniel Bromilow, Barrister, 9 Stone Buildings. Daniel was called to the Bar in 1996 and specialises in land
and property law and landlord & tenant work.
Duration: Leeds
Bristol
Manchester
Cost: Duration: 9.30am - 12.45pm or 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
23 May, 10 Oct Cost: £168.75 + VAT £187.50 + VAT
£250 + VAT
9.30am – 12.45pm or 2.00pm - 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
20 Mar (am)
London
30 Apr (am), 22 Oct (am)
8 Jul (am)
Birmingham 16 Oct (pm)
28 Oct (am)
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Selling Land to Developers
Shared & Joint Ownership
NEW
Introduction
This practical course, by two highly experienced and popular trainers is aimed at demystifying the process of selling
land to developers and will look at the tips and traps to have in mind from the start of the process to finalising the
deal. This seminar is aimed at those acting for individuals or small companies and provides an insight into
development from the point of view of the seller. In particular, this seminar is aimed at lawyers who may have
experience of property transactions but little or no experience in development. It is suitable for those who are
instructed in the sale of (typically) a small plot of land with clear development potential (e.g. garden development,
building multiple dwellings on a single plot etc). The seminar gathers together all the different areas that need to be
considered when advising a client as to the best way to maximise development potential and retain any necessary
rights over the land. The course is also suitable for those whose clients have larger landholdings to sell for
development, as well as those entering into promotion agreements.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• Conditional contracts versus options
• Exercising options - whole or part?
• Overage traps
• Exceptions & reservations
• Dealing with rights to light
• Restrictive covenants: imposing, removing, modifying CIL
• Easements - using & abusing
• Quasi easements, Wheeldon v Burrows & s62
• Boundary disputes, access problems, ransom strips, wayleaves
• The Party Wall Act and Access to Neighbouring Land Act
• Giving vacant possession - problems with tenants & squatters
• Residential tenants’ rights of first refusal
SPEAKERS.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey and Peta Dollar. Sarah Thompson-Copsey, former partner and head of property
litigation at Denton Hall. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website, a prolific author in legal
and property journals on landlord and tenant matters, and a popular speaker at property law seminars. Peta Dollar,
former partner at Denton Wilde Sapte for 17 years where much of her time focussed on major development projects.
Peta is now a full-time freelance lecturer, trainer and writer and regularly publishes articles in the Estates Gazette and
other leading journals. She wrote the pre-contract and contract sections of Practical Lawyer Property Portal, is a
member of the Editorial Boards of Landlord and Tenant Review and Sweet & Maxwell’s Lawtel FirstPoint product, and
is on the Consultation Board of Practical Law Company.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
London
8 Apr, 28 Oct
Manchester 31 Oct
Cost: £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
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Taxation Traps
for Conveyancers
NEW
NEW
Introduction
Different types of ownership create different problems for conveyancers and require different approaches
from practitioners. The traditional style of ‘shared ownership’ lease may have been around for some time but
a new compulsory form of lease was introduced in 2010. Will it be acceptable to the particular lender?
SDLT on the grant of the lease is somewhat complicated and even more complicated if your client decides to
staircase upwards at a later date. Can you advise them of the options and consequences? ‘Simple’ coownership is anything but simple these days. Your problems start the day you get instructions. Are the coowners making equal or unequal contributions to the purchase? What if they split up later? Are they going
to cohabit or is it a business investment?
The House of Lords gave a ‘definitive’ judgement only 5 years ago, yet the Supreme Court had to revisit the
situation again in 2011 to clarify the position. Do we now have a clear picture and do you understand it?
What you will learn:
• Shared ownership, standard lease clauses and
standard lease
• Staircasing
• SDLT on shared ownership leases
• HomeBuy schemes
• Stack v Dowden to Kernott v Jones (Supreme
Court Judgment handed down on 9 November
2011)
• Constructive trusts/common intention
constructive trusts/ambulatory trusts
• Severance of a joint tenancy
• Avoiding negligence claims
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Duration:
Leeds
Bristol
Manchester
Cost:
2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
20 Mar
London
30 Apr, 22 Oct
8 Jul
Birmingham 11 Jul
28 Oct
£103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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The CML Lenders
Handbook & BSA Instructions
Including the Lenders’ Handbook Part 3
Introduction
Introduction
As a conveyancer, you often have to address issues that overlap with other areas of law, such as planning,
building regulations and environmental hazards.
However, the danger for a property lawyer who is not a tax specialist is that important taxation implications
of a property transaction are overlooked.
Whether your desire to learn the basics of property-related taxation is motivated by a desire to add tax advice
to your list of skills or simply to know when to recommend your client speak to a specialist, this course is for
you.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• New tax avoidance and disclosure measures concerning high value residential property
• Capital Gains Tax: second homes and buy-to-let properties
• SDLT: leases, transfers of equity, linked transactions, shared ownership
• IHT: house price falls, deeds of gifts and transfers at undervalue, inter-family loans
• Tax on rental income, allowable expenses, furnished residential property allowance
• Pre-owned asset charge: How it is charged, how it works in relation to land, exemptions
• Council Tax: new proposals for empty homes, key changes for second homes, single person occupancy,
annexes to property
The Lenders’ Handbook has been around for some time now, but it doesn’t stand still; it is constantly
changing. Experienced conveyancers may take it for granted; some new conveyancers may not have studied
the handbook carefully, both options are dangerous.
Have you seen the Building Society Association’s Standard Mortgage Instructions? How are they different
from the CML Lenders’ Handbook?
Practice Rule 3.19 was an integral part of the Handbook but it has now been abolished. This has forced the
creation of a new CoT for both solicitors and licensed conveyancers.
With reductions of lender’s panels you may only be acting for the borrower or the lender. The CML has
launched The Lenders Handbook Part 3 for separate representation. How well has this been thought
through? What are the problem areas?
These and other questions will be answered in this three hour trip through the ‘mortgage instruction
minefield’.
What you will learn:
• The new CoT and what it means
• The main differences between the CML and BSA instructions
• Leaseholds - flats
• Separate representation - The lenders’ Handbook Part 3
• Registration - ‘big brother’ IS watching
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
19 Mar, 23 Oct Leeds
10 Apr
Birmingham20 May
Bristol
11 Jul
Manchester 10 Sep
Cost: £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from ‘both sides of the track’ and has an intuitive feel for delegates’
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
Duration: 9.30am - 12.45pm or 2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
London
12 Mar, 24 Sep (pm)
Manchester
13 Mar (pm)
Bristol
20 Jun (pm)
Leeds
15 Oct (pm)
Birmingham 16 Oct (am)
Cost: £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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Title Defects
Title Defects
Defusing the Time Bombs before
Completion - Part 1
Defusing the Time Bombs before
Completion - Part 2
Introduction
Introduction
We live in a world of electronic conveyancing, case management systems, ever-expanding client
expectations, increasing PII premiums, greater competition, and information (plus regulatory) overload.
On one hand, as property lawyers you are expected to manage risks and yet you also have to deal with the
modern reality that countless title defects exist. Part 1 of this 2 part series considers issues central to many
property transactions. Parts 1 and 2 are independent - you can attend one part or both. If you attend both
your lunch will be included.
What you will learn:
Part 1 will consider the following common issues:
• When is an easement defective? What if the property lacks adequate rights?
• How an Easement can be lost or suspended
• Breach of covenant: likelihood of enforcement & remedies available
• Defective leases: inadequate repair, building insurance, service charges provision
• Dealing with the Land Registry: problematic restrictions, plans, early completion procedures, application
cancelled
• What are the seller’s duties in relation to hidden title defects?
• When the boundary line does not appear to be in the correct place
• Advising the client when the environmental search contains adverse entries
• Sale by an invalid power of attorney - protection for buyer and mortgagee
• Providing clear advice to your client on the defect in question
We live in a world of electronic conveyancing, case management systems, ever-expanding client
expectations, increasing PII premiums, greater competition, and information (plus regulatory) overload.
On one hand, as property lawyers you are expected to manage risks and yet you also have to deal with the
modern reality that countless title defects exist. Part 2 of this 2 part series considers issues central to many
property transactions. Parts 1 and 2 are independent - you can attend one part or both. If you attend both
your lunch will be included.
What you will learn:
Part 2 will consider the following common issues:
• Adverse Possession: The quality of evidence required - What if the claim is disputed?
• Private roads with no provision for repair - Update on private drains
• Prescriptive Easements: How do you prove the existence and scope of a prescriptive right after 20 years?
• Right of Light and Rights of Common: the risk for property owners and developers
• Defective leases: inadequate enforcement provision, ambiguity in key covenants
• When the deed is not executed correctly or does not reflect the parties’ intentions
• Building regulations infringements - works not properly self-certified
• Transfer of Equity - Undervalue or gift: why transfer could be set aside 17 years after completion
• When is a flying/creeping freehold a potential problem?
• Seller has failed to give vacant possession - precautions and remedies
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Duration: London
Birmingham
Manchester
Cost: Duration: London
Birmingham
Manchester
Cost: 9.30am – 12.45pm (3 CPD Hours)
20 Mar, 17 Sep
Leeds13 Jun
25 Jun
Bristol
24 Sep
16 Oct £103.50 + VAT £115 + VAT
£230 + VAT
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2.00pm – 5.15pm (3 CPD Hours)
20 Sept, 17 Sep Leeds 13 Jun
25 Jun
Bristol 24 Sep
16 Oct
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Village Green Applications
A Practical Guide
Introduction
This seminar has been specifically designed as a practical guide for those who are involved in the potential
development of land that is or may be the subject of a Town or Village Green application. The seminar will focus on
the statutory provisions governing the registration of town and village greens as well as recent case law.
The topics covered are designed to give delegates a clearer understanding of the position of the parties involved,
including the position of the local authority, in its capacity as registration authority and also that of a land owner.
Issues such as the vulnerability of open space and sports pitches to village green applications as well as the statutory
provisions that in certain circumstances could override rights relating to village greens will be considered with
reference to recent case law - R v Redcar Cleveland BC (2010)/Leeds Group Plc v Leeds City Council (2011)/BDW
Trading Ltd v Spooner (2011) - Merton Green.
What you will learn:
This seminar will cover the following:
• What is a town or village green? - a matter for consideration
• The application - Section 15 Commons Act 2006
• The applicant - is there sufficient evidence to warrant an application?
• The landowner - what efforts has he/she made to dissuade others to use his/her land – are they using it with
permission?
• The registration authorities - what are their responsibilities?
• The decision making process - transparency?
• Statutory provisions - the legal process
• Legal challenge - who what when and where?
• Case law - judicial determinations
• Case studies, reports and notices - highlighting issues of interest
SPEAKER.
Chris Bramham was until he retired earlier this year a Principal Legal Officer with Leeds City Council with more than
38 years local government experience. He specialised in development related matters with specific emphasise on
highway and transport related issues, he was directly involved in processing over 20 town and village green
applications and has been directly involved in a number of local public inquiries. An experienced lecturer he has in
depth knowledge of the law relating to Commons and Village Greens.
Duration: 9.30am – 5.15pm (6 CPD Hours)
Bristol
11 Apr Birmingham
Manchester 24 Sep
London
Cost: £207 + VAT £230 + VAT
£460 + VAT
30 Apr
31 Oct
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Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Your conveyancing bills may not take up a major proportion of the time spent on a property transaction but as in all areas
of the law these days the topic is loaded with regulation.
Failure to follow the rules may lead to disciplinary action or at the very least a disgruntled client and loss of goodwill.
This webinar looks at key elements of regulation and also discusses the kinds of business philosophy firms adopt - “pile
‘em high and sell ‘em cheap” or hanging on to “professionalism” by your fingertips!
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following topics:
• SRA Code of Conduct generally and on referral fees
• Solicitors Accounts Rules
• Law Society Guidance - client care letters
• VAT - on disbursements
• SDLT implications
• CML and BSA Conditions - with a look at Panels, Mortgagees Costs, and separate representation
• What can a client do in challenging a bill
• The retainer letter and contractual basis - Minkin v Cawdery Kaye
• A client’s experience with conveyancing fees - what is it like on the other side?
• ”False Profits”
• Your business philosophy - why does a client instruct you anyway?
• The Legal Ombudsman
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor. Paul ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of all
types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice bringing
many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
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Advising Co-Owners: How Far
Do Your Conveyancing Duties
Extend? Webinar/DVD
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Amending Deeds & Rectification
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
This webinar highlights some of the pitfalls that need to be addressed when acting for more than one
purchaser, such as receiving money from a third party, including the latest trend whereby the bank of Mum
& Dad bail out first time buyers.
Find out how to persuade your clients to make a declaration of trust and the best advice to provide when
your clients are faced with an imminent relationship breakdown.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Changes to beneficial interests post-trust deed
• Pre-emptive advice on relationship breakdown
• Co-ownership when there is no trust deed
• Persuading clients to make a declaration of trust
• Possible contents of the declarations
• Advising on transaction at an undervalue
• Money coming from the bank of Mum and Dad
It is inevitable in the course of a busy conveyancing practice that a mistake will be made in a document,
whether by the conveyancer drafting it or the secretary preparing it.
This webinar aims to explain some of the rules and cases on what needs to be done (and what you cannot
do) when such errors come to light, spotted by you, a colleague or “the other side”.
Nobody is perfect and the pressures under which conveyancers work nowadays means that more such
mistakes will be made some of which may only come to light many years after the event
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following topics:
• Land Registry Practice on amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land
• Before the original deed is registered and
• While the deed is in course of registration or
• Where the original deed has been registered
• Special requirements for leases
• Special requirements for charges
• Rectification of Title at Land Registry - The Land Registration Act 2002 Schedule 4
• Illustrative established and recent cases including The Mercury Tax case and its implications
• Virtual signing - a look at The Law Society Guidance
• Dangers of email
• Mistakes in a contract - can you put them right?
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor, ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of all
types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice.
He brings many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
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Applying for First Registration
at the Land Registry
Webinar/DVD
NEW
Buy to Let A Comprehensive
Guide Webinar/DVD
NEW
Introduction
Introduction
There are inevitably many areas and titles where the question of applying for first registration arises.
As an introduction for those less experienced this webinar aims to cover the procedures you need to follow
for the first registration of unregistered estates in land and will also include:
•
An update on the amendments dealing with circumstances where evidence of SDLT may not be
required
•
The Localism Act 2011 - where the requirement for registration of some social tenancies are
exempted.
The Buy to Let market can fluctuate wildly and although there are always clients in ‘for the long haul’, there
are also new entrants to the market - perhaps as an alternative to paying into a pension scheme. Entering
the buy to let market also has its attractions but there are some pitfalls that may not immediately be
apparent for the unwary. This webinar will be suitable for those who either specialise in this area of
conveyancing for business clients and those who have an understanding of the basics of residential
conveyancing but need some guidelines to follow either for a new proposed letting after completion, or a
property subject to existing tenancies.
What you will learn:
• CML requirements and Mortgagee’s special
conditions
• The SRA Code of Conduct 2011 and separate
representation - what are the limits of your
retainer?
• Survey liability - the different duty of care and
how to advise your client
• Standard Conditions of Sale 5th Edition and
The Conveyancing Protocol and your
completion arrangements and a word about
Standard Commercial Property Conditions
• The Tenancy Agreement
• Are there restrictive covenants on your client’s
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• What interests can you register?
• What are the advantages of registering?
• Applications which are mandatory
• Applications which are voluntary
• How to lodge an application, which form do you use and Land Registry reminders
• Examining the title and classes of title
• Dealing with land before First Registration is concluded
• Applying for First Registration where title deeds have been lost
freehold title?
• If leasehold what covenants and restrictions to
look out for and will your client be personally
liable for his tenant’s breach of the leasehold
covenants?
• Rental Deposits void periods, council tax and
what your client must comply with
• Safety- EPC requirements, gas, electricity and
appliances - a manslaughter charge?
• Houses in Multiple Occupation
• Insurance aspects and tax
• Fraud - by your client’s tenant or by your client
and how you might protect yourself
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, solicitor. Paul ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing
of all types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of
practice bringing many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
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£60 + VAT
£120 + VAT
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Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: Duration: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
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Buying Land for Development
Key Issues Explored
with Vivian Chapman QC Webinar/DVD
Individual Viewing
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Challenges to Planning
Decisions - The Latest Reforms
NEW
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
Buying land for development involves much more than simple investigation of title. This intermediate level
webinar considers in a useful and practical way some of the key issues that need to be considered when
buying land for development.
The webinar will cover recent important decisions in this field including:
• Chaudhary v Yavuz [2012] 2 All ER 418
• London Tara Hotel Ltd v Kensington Close Hotel Ltd [2012] 2 All ER 554
• Taylor v Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 250
• Adamson v Paddico [2012] EWCA Civ 262
• Llewellyn v Lorey [2011] EWCA Civ 37
What you will learn:
The webinar will address the following:
• Is the access to the land adequate for development purposes?
• Can all necessary services be linked to the land?
• Is development impeded by restrictive covenants?
• Will the development infringe rights of light?
• Is development likely to be impeded by adverse rights over the land, such as:
• Private rights of way
•Public rights of way, or
•Registration of the land as a new town or village green?
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, solicitor. Paul ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing
of all types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of
practice bringing many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing
£49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
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Individual Viewing £30+ VAT
£60 + VAT
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Paul Tobias, Solicitor. Paul ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing
of all types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of
practice bringing many years of practical experience to his presentations.
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This webinar will deal with how planning decisions can be challenged. It will review planning appeals, the
work of the Planning Inspectorate (PINS), challenges that can be made in the courts by objectors to planning
approvals and to PINS decisions, appeals against enforcement notices; and other methods of challenge such
as application for registration of Village Greens.
Get up to date with the latest case law and the Government proposals for reform for appeal.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
• Whether to appeal or not
• Planning Appeal process
• Costs in Appeals
• Applications to MIPU for Major applications and implications for appeal process
• Enforcement Notice Appeals
• Challenges under the T&CPA 1990
• Judicial Review - Timing and Standing
• Protective Costs Orders
• Other methods of challenge
• Latest case law, including:
• Fox strategic land on previous PINS decisions
• Ashley on fresh evidence at appeals
• Macrae and Berky on timing of Judicial Review Proceedings
• Betterment Properties and Malpas on Village Green applications
SPEAKER.
David Forbes, David has a national reputation on Planning and Environment Law, and is a member of
the Law Society's Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing
£49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
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Commercial Property for
Conveyancers - A Practical
Approach to Key Issues
Webinar/DVD
NEW
Commercial Property
Transactions for Conveyancers
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
If you are a residential conveyancer contemplating a move into commercial property work, then this webinar
is for you.
This webinar is designed to introduce a range of key issues and to give you a solid start in this important area
of law.
This webinar is designed for residential conveyancers looking to move into commercial property work.
This webinar examines more key aspects of commercial property transactions in order to give you a
smoother transition into this practice area.
What you will learn:
The webinar will cover the following:
• Perils associated with underleases
• Options to purchase freehold or to renew lease
• Side letters: Binding obligations and invalid contracts
• Drafting the rent deposit deed: Deductions, VAT, trust or charge
• Service charges: Avoiding shortfalls and overcharging, Tenant’s Proportion, the demand
• Rent review clauses: Key components of the notional lease
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• How far your client retainer extends
• When are best or reasonable endeavours sufficient?
• Conditional contracts - Defining the condition, Rights of rescission
• VAT: Exempt supplies & exercising Option to Tax
• Guarantees: Extent of covenant - When is guarantor off the hook?
• Exercising rights of entry & complying with quiet enjoyment covenan
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and
has been a CPD speaker since 2004.
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
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Introduction
Introduction
Nowadays conveyancers work under enormous time and costs pressures. The luxury of spending hours to
perfect a particular title is often no longer a feasible option. The increasing use and reliance upon Defective Title
Indemnity Insurance prompts this webinar which will examine the many circumstances in which they are used,
the essence of the policies available, the inherent dangers and traps for the unwary.The many “instant issue”
policies will be looked as well as the “Bespoke” policies particularly in the context of development sites and
problems of Rights to Light and how insurance can assist.Far from being a panacea for all ills the use of such
policies without sufficient forethought can change their nature from magic sticking plaster to nasty claims
which may land on your desk even years later.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The nature of indemnity policies
• Self issue insurance - looking at Absent Landlord, Absence of Easement, Adverse Rights, Building
Regulations, Building Standards, Contingent Buildings, Deposit Guarantee, Flying Freehold, Forfeiture of
Lease, Good Leasehold, Indemnity Top-Up, Insolvency Act
• Further examples of what is available on the market including: Lease Enlargement, Lost Deeds, Flat/
Maisonette Indemnity, Missing Particulars, Missing Rentcharge Owner, Planning Permission, Possessory
Title and superior lease
• Searches and lack of same looking at Contaminated land, Restrictive Covenant, Searches: Chancel, Local
and Environmental
• Bespoke policies, Development Sites and problems covered by Right to Light Insurance
• ”Comprehensive Policies” HOPP, SCIP, and Jump?
• CML requirements
• Who pays the premium and is an allowance an “Incentive”?
SPEAKER.
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Conveyancing Searches
Conveyancing & Title Insurance
Dangers & Traps for the Unwary
Webinar/DVD
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Why Do You Do Them & How
to Deal With the Results
Webinar/DVD
Most searches are now applied for online using a desk top search provider and many conveyancing staff
will not know the significance of the searches and what is an appropriate response to the search results.
This webinar will provide practical advice to those staff in addition to helping firms improve their risk profile
in this complex area.
This webinar is designed for conveyancing staff who may be familiar with carrying out searches, but who
now want to take on more responsibility and possibly move into a fee earning role.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Which searches should you carry out in every
transaction?
• What are “non standard” searches?
• Why plans are important
• How to respond to less common search results
• Risk management
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor. Paul ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing
of all types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of
practice bringing many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Lorraine Richardson. Lorraine is a practising solicitor based in East Anglia who has delivered legal
training for many years. Lorraine was instrumental in the design and delivery of the Land Registry
Qualification and in addition to delivering property related solicitors’ CPD courses across the country.
Lorraine is the co-editor of the popular Law Society publication “Conveyancing Forms and Procedures”.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
Duration: This course is accredited with 1.25 CPD Hours
Group Viewing £49.50+ VAT
£99 + VAT
£198 + VAT
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£60 + VAT
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Conveyancing: The Challenges
From Lenders Webinar/DVD
NEW
Don’t Be a Negligent Planning
Lawyer - Traps to Avoid
NEW
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
Conveyancing work still carries a significant risk and the duties imposed by lenders continue to increase.
This webinar is designed for all conveyancing practitioners who need to keep up to date on these duties
and will focus on the circumstances in which lenders can insist that you send them your conveyancing file.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Recent changes to the CML Handbook
• The new Code of Conduct
• Can you act for the lender and the borrower?
• The importance of complying with mortgage conditions
• Recent case law
• When can a lender demand your conveyancing file?
This webinar is intended to highlight the main traps in Planning Law and practice, and give tips on how to
avoid them if at all possible. Aimed at planning lawyers, this webinar will take you through the problem
areas to help you avoid costly mistakes.
Get up to speed on the changes in the current regulations which may affect the advice you give to clients,
for example, avoiding a negligence action by ensuring you refer to the NPPF when advising about appeals
against refusal and more.
What you will learn:
The key points covered will include:
• Is development involved?
• Conditions attached to Planning Permissions and their interpretation
• What to do if there is no Planning Permission
• Enforcement Traps
• Local Authorities and advice
• Problems with:
• Building Regulations
• Heritage Assets
• Village Greens
• Latest case law on Negligence; including De Morgan PLC and Jones v Kaney on expert witnesses
SPEAKER.
Lorraine Richardson. Lorraine is a practising solicitor based in East Anglia who has delivered legal
training for many years. Lorraine was instrumental in the design and delivery of the Land Registry
Qualification and in addition to delivering many property related solicitors’ CPD courses across the country,
she has delivered Management Course Stage 1 and 2 and webinars on a wide range of subjects. Lorraine
is the co-editor of the popular Law Society publication “Conveyancing Forms and Procedures”.
SPEAKER.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
Details: This pre-recorded webinar is available to view on selected dates
throughout the year. It can also be viewed at your convenience on DVD.
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Defending Possession
Proceedings Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Over 142,000 residential possession claims were issued in 2011 (not including mortgage possession claims)
and, as any practitioner knows, possession claims form a large part of the work of the county court. This
webinar looks at defences that occupiers can advance to possession claims. It covers both public and private
sector cases. It will cover the basics of the common defences, for example:
• Is a ground for possession made out?
• Is it reasonable to make an order for possession?
The webinar will also look at some of the more adventurous defences that have become available over the last
few years, both with the advent of the proportionality defence after the Supreme Court case of Manchester CC
v Pinnock and the revitalised “gateway (b)” public law defences. Whilst private sector claims have not been
subject to the same upheaval, there are still plenty of pitfalls for the unwary, which can lead to defences being
raised. This webinar is aimed at anyone dealing with residential possession claims, whether for landlords or
tenants. Some prior experience of possession claims is desirable, as parts of the webinar will be dealing with
more complex points of law emerging from recent cases.
What you will learn:
• Public sector housing: The traditional approach: Secure tenancies (grounds for possession, reasonableness)
• Assured tenancies (grounds for possession, reasonableness, etc)
• More recent developments: Other public sector tenancies (flexible tenancies, introductory tenancies,
demoted tenancies, non-secure tenancies); Public Law defences; Human Rights Act 1998 Defences
• The private sector housing: Housing Act 1988, s.21
David Forbes, David has a national reputation on Planning and Environment Law, and is a member of the
Law Society’s Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
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Don’t be a Negligent Conveyancer
Ten Traps to Avoid to Stay Safe Webinar/DVD
Introduction
When things change so quickly for conveyancers, it is hardly surprising that negligence claims continue at
such a pace. While we don’t guarantee to cover every change or new case we will cover a lot in a short
time.
This quick, convenient webinar, looks at 10 recent conveyancing changes / problem areas. It could help you
avoid costly mistakes and you pick up 1.5 CPD credits at the same time.
What you will learn:
The content may change up-to-the-minute of broadcast, but it is likely to cover:
• Land Registry - early completion - the BSA Mortgage Instructions
• Service charges - major works and long term contracts
• Shared & Joint ownership
• Areas of selective licensing
• HIPs may have gone but problems with agency searches continue
• Conditional contracts
• SRA Code of Conduct and undertakings
• Interpretation of Easements
• Easements - derogation from grant works - oh yes it does - oh no it doesn’t
• Breach of covenant - ‘nuisance or annoyance’
SPEAKER.
Justin Bates, Barrister, Arden Chambers. Justin’s practice covers all aspects of housing, property and local
government law and is the Deputy General Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law. He is particularly
familiar with the work of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and has appeared in a number of reported Lands
Tribunal/Upper Tribunal cases concerning the jurisdiction and powers of the LVT. Described in Chambers and
Partners 2011 as “Incredibly enthusiastic and passionate about this area of law and is able to provide a new
twist to old problems”.
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SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Keith has been a CPD presenter for almost as long as he was a conveyancer. He doesn?t
practice any longer, but is well known for his understanding of the problems faced by conveyancers ‘at the
coal face’ and brings a lively, practical approach to all his presentations.
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Easements & The Land Registry
Webinar/DVD
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Enfranchisement - Collective
Rights & The 1993 Act
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
This webinar concentrates on the requirements, attitudes and rules of Land Registry in regard to Easements and how
you and they will deal with their registration and protection in daily conveyancing life.
What do you have to do in practice to ensure you not only comply with the rules but protect your client and preserve
valuable property rights which stand to be lost if you fail to observe all of the necessary formalities and applications?
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Easements as registrable dispositions
• Easements in registered and unregistered leases and in leases other than by deed
• Subjective Implied and prescriptive easements
• Proving grantor's power to make the grant
• Equitable easements
• Sub-leases and assignments of part
• Removal of register entries when easement is overridden, on extinguishment and objections
• Easements on first registration of the dominant or servient land and beneficial easements
• Easements in transfers and deeds of grant and the status of the dominant and servient tenements
• Equitable easements and easements as overriding interests
• A look at some of the recent cases of note:
• Howard John Kettel & Others v Bloomfield Ltd (2012) - Can a right to park be a legal easement?
• CIP Property (AIPT) Ltd v Transport for London (2012) - How early can you apply for an injunction to
protect a right to light?
• Lee v Courtenay Gate Lawns Ltd (2012) - Can a Leaseholder apply to the Tribunal to discharge or modify
a restrictive covenant?
• Walby v Walby (2012) - Will a right of way be implied in favour of a seller on a transfer of part of its title?
• Joyce v Epsom and Ewell Borough Council (2012) - Is a developer entitled to a right of way based on the
xpectations of his predecessor in title
• Yeates v Line (2012) - Boundary dispute - Effect of s.2 requirements and applicability to agreements over
sements?
Introduction
The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 grants certain tenants the right collectively
to obtain the freehold of the building in which their flats are situate, and individual tenants the right to lease
extension.Although designed to be of benefit to such tenants, the practice can be a minefield for the unwary.
This webinar will cover the following:
• Preparing the claim
• Gathering the information & drafting the participation agreement
• Understanding the impact of the time limits
• Who qualifies
• Qualifying buildings, exempt buildings and making the percentages work
• Qualifying tenants - getting the numbers right
• Differences for lease extension
• Making the claim
• Getting the initial notice right - signature, plans & pricing pitfalls
• Defects in the notice - invalidity / nullity?
• Dealing with the landlord’s counter-notice
• What to do in the case of dispute
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor. Paul ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of all
types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice bringing
many years of practical experience to his presentations.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey, Solicitor, was formerly a partner and head of property litigation at Denton Hall,
acting for many blue chip clients. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website, a site
editor for Practical Law Company, a popular and regular speaker at property law conferences and seminars
and a prolific author of articles in legal and property journals on landlord and tenant matters.
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Enfranchisement - Commercial
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Equity Release - An Update
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
Has the 2012 Supreme Court decision in Hosebay sounded the death knell for enfranchisement of buildings
used for commercial or mixed commercial/residential purposes?
This webinar will explore the background and the implications of Hosebay and look at whether enfranchisement
for such buildings still remains - and examine the impact of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 on tenants’ rights
to buy the freehold of mixed use buildings.
Equity release is highly regulated and it is essential that you follow the guidelines when dealing with each
new matter. This webinar focuses on reminding you of your obligations when dealing with Equity Release
as well as updating you on any changes. The webinar also includes examples and possible situations as
well as potential issues when dealing with equity release together with practical solutions.
This webinar will cover the following:
• Enfranchising houses: Leasehold Reform Act 1967
• Who can use the Act?
• A house: ‘designed or adapted for living in’ or ‘reasonably so called’
• Notices and counter-notices
• ’Commercial enfranchisement’? A review of the position post Hosebay v Day
• Pre-emption rights - acquiring the freehold: Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
• What is a ‘disposal’ and when is it proposed?
• Mixed commercial/residential buildings & qualifying tenants
• Criminal offence & tainted buildings
• The right to ‘unwind’ the sale: Green v Westleigh, Maloney v Gosal
What you will learn:
The webinar will cover the following topics:
• A summary of the procedure for dealing with equity release
• An update on the changes specifically with the procedure and requirements of the provider when dealing
with equity release
• Practical examples
• Is it feasible to advise a client on equitable release long distance?
• If a property is owned jointly and one party is reluctant, how do you proceed?
• If a client does not wish to take independent financial advice, what do you do?
• Points and potential issues to consider
• Capacity
• Conflict
• Undue influence
• Duress
• How to market equity release
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey, Solicitor, was formerly a partner and head of property litigation at Denton
Hall, acting for many blue chip clients. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website,
a site editor for Practical Law Company, a popular and regular speaker at property law conferences and
seminars and a prolific author of articles in legal and property journals on landlord and tenant matters.
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Lorraine Stratton-Webb, Partner at Clough & Willis Solicitors. Lorraine is an experienced Property
Solicitor, Head of the Residential Conveyancing Team at Clough & Willis Solicitors in Bury, and specialises in
equity release.
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Estate Agents Law
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
This webinar is intended to provide a survey of significant recent developments in the field of estate agency
law. Of the greatest long term significance are the Government’s proposals to reform the Estate Agents Act
and repeal the Property Misdescriptions Act. However, there has also been the usual steady stream of
decisions considering, amongst other things, entitlements to commission and the implications of the Unfair
Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 in the context of residential lettings. Statutory regulation and
consumer protection continue to be of considerable importance. The session will review developments in
these fields, including the operation of the Property Ombudsman scheme. Whilst estate agency and
mortgage brokerage are distinct activities, the two are often closely connected. Recent regulatory
enforcement decisions will be considered, especially in the context of residential mortgage fraud.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The statutory regimes affecting estate agents: Estate Agents Act 1979 and Property Misdescriptions Act
1991
• Proposals to reform the statutory regimes
• The jurisdiction of the Property Ombudsman (formerly the Ombudsman for Estate Agents)
• Managing agents and service charges
• Mortgage fraud, mortgage brokers and the regulatory role of the FSA
• Recent case law, including that on:
• ”Sole agency”
• ”Effective cause”
• Entitlement to commission
• Unfair terms in letting agents’ contracts
• Auctioneers’ breaches of warranty of authority
SPEAKER.
Peter Dodge is primarily a litigator with a commercial chancery practice. His principal areas of practice
include property litigation, general commercial litigation (especially where there are financial or property
elements) and associated professional negligence litigation.
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Joint Ownership - The Latest
Webinar/DVD
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Introduction
The House of Lords set what they thought were the definitive rules in Stack v Dowden, but the Supreme
Court had to clarify the position only 5 years later in Jones v Kernott. The Court of Appeal has recently had
to consider whether the courts can overturn an existing declaration of trust.Can a transfer into joint names
for no consideration be subsequently overturned by the trustee in bankruptcy of the ‘donor’?
Joint purchase of residential property is the very ‘bread and butter’ of conveyancers. We should all know
what to do, however, the courts have been very critical of conveyancers for not making their client’s financial
position clear thus avoiding the need for the courts to decide. This webinar will cover the most recent
decisions and the recent joint Law Society/Land Registry practice advice which was released on 14 January
2013.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Recent cases:
• Stack v Dowden
• Jones v Kernott
• Pankanhia v Chandegra
• Trustee in Bankruptcy of Taylor v Taylor
• The joint Law Society / Land Registry practice advice to conveyancers
• The new LR Form JO
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor. Keith was a practitioner for 30 years. Since leaving day-to-day practice he has
become a busy and popular CPD speaker. He brings his wealth of practical experience to this webinar and
is renowned for his relaxed style of delivery and makes watching as enjoyable and as informative as
possible.
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Knock it Down - The Latest Law
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Webinar/DVD
LPAs and Local Plans - The
Latest on Planning Applications
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
Get up to speed on the latest changes in the law, particularly the manner in which LPA’s will enforce out of
time and with CIL. This webinar is aimed at property lawyers who deal with development matters. All
aspects of enforcement will be considered including:
• The latest enforcement powers given to Local Authorities under the Localism Act and the Proceeds of
Crime Act
• The very considerable powers given to LPAs under the CIL Regulations to enforce payment of CIL
• Appeals and preparing for and obtaining Certificates of Lawfulness to prevent enforcement action
What you will learn:
The webinar will cover the following :
• Problems with Enforcement
• Planning Contravention Notices
• Breach of Condition Notices
• Enforcement Notices
• Appeals
• Injunctions
• Stop Notices
• Enforcement of payment of CIL
• Proposals for Reform
• S 215 Notices
• Recent Case Law including consideration of:
• Beresford and its interaction with the Localism Act
• Compton on the Planning Unit
• Williams on challenges in the courts to Enforcement Notices
SPEAKER.
David Forbes, until his recent retirement was a Senior Partner at Pickworths, Solicitors, St Albans and head
of the team responsible for the firm’s considerable reputation in the area of Planning Law. David is a
member of the Law Society’s Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
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There have been many changes recently in relation to this area, such as the application of NPPF, Localism Act and
proposals for speeding up the system.
This webinar will consider the latest developments including:
• LPAs adopting Local Plans which conform to the NPPF policies
• The progress made with Neighbourhood Plans and the implications for development in those Neighbourhoods
• How to apply for PP and to whom
• Proposals for reform and speeding up the Planning Process
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• What consideration by way of development plans; Neighbourhood Plans; and National Policies must be taken into
account
• Applying for Permission
• Proposals for reform and speeding up the system
• Conditions
• Minor alterations to Planning Permissions
• Interpretation of Planning Permissions
• Lawful Development Certificates
• Latest Case Law, including
• Health and Safety Executive on matters the LPA can consider when reaching a planning decision
• Halton BC and Prologis on Rights of a Parish Council to be properly consulted
• Greyfort Properties on Implementation of Planning Permissions
SPEAKER.
David Forbes, David has a national reputation on Planning and Environment Law, and is a member of the
Law Society’s Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
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Mistakes in the Contract
Has the Court of Appeal Gone Too Far?
Webinar/DVD
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Planning Law for Property
Lawyers - An Update
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
Leases, sales contracts, overage agreements, licences, guarantees, agreements to surrender - all drafted by transactional
lawyers and usually without a hitch - but what happens when the drafting does go wrong?
Planning is frequently in the news, either as an area which the Government considers needs to be reformed as
standing in the way of economic recovery; or being criticised for being the sole cause of the current chronic shortage
of affordable housing in England. This webinar will explore all the current Government proposals, both proposed and
activated. It will also deal with the current state of play with the Localism Act 2011; Neighbourhood Plans; and the
NPPF and Local Plan progress. The latest progress on CIL plans and Affordable housing will be explored. Also covered
will be all current case law. If you are an experienced Property lawyer involved in the commercial, residential and
development fields, this webinar is for you. It will also serve as an aide memoire for the specialist Planning Lawyers.
Increasingly the court is being asked to construe or interpret property contracts where the drafting appears to have gone
awry. This may include adding an amending words and clauses and it can change the words entirely in some
circumstances. Failing that the court may be able to rectify the contract, so that it says what it was meant to say.
Following the Court of Appeal decision in Daventry, are the courts now prepared to decide what a contract should have
said - regardless of the words used, and regardless of the agreement of the parties?
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The court’s approach to interpreting the words used in property contracts? Adding words, deleting words, changing
words - how the court decides. Looking in particular, at problem drafting in:
• Lease clauses (including rent review and break clauses)
• Sale & purchase contracts - what should have been conveyed?
• Overage agreements
• Why pre-contractual correspondence may not matter - and when it will
• Why is rectification so different - and when will it be given? What does the court look for?
• Does Daventry mean that slipshod drafting at the outset isn’t a problem now?
SPEAKER.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey, Solicitor, was formerly a partner and head of property litigation at Denton Hall, acting
for many blue chip clients. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website and a prolific author of
articles in legal and property journals on landlord and tenant matters, and a popular and regular speaker at property
law conferences and seminars.
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• Latest news on Government initiatives and
guidance
• The latest on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill:
• Applicants providing less information with
Planning Applications - reasonable information
• Preventing registration of land as a Village
• Village Green status applications
• Old planning permissions under the Electricity
Act and mining permissions
• Secretary of State costs
• Applying for Planning Permission direct to the
Secretary of State
• New business applications to the Major
Infrastructure unit
• Applying to the LPA to reduce or extinguish
the affordable housing requirement of a S 106
Agreement
SPEAKER.
David Forbes, until his retirement was a Senior Partner at Pickworths, Solicitors, St Albans and head of the team
responsible for the firm’s considerable reputation in the area of Planning Law. David has a ‘national’ reputation on
Planning and Environment Law, and is a member of the Law Society’s Planning Panel and a Legal Associate of the
Royal Town Planning Institute.
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What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Update on effects of Localism Act and NPPF
Changes to PD rights and the effects
• Easing of requirements for information
accompanying Planning Applications
• Detailed guidance on FOI and Environmental
Regulation Information requests with particular
reference to commercial interest exceptions
• Update on case law covering all aspects of
planning law and practice
• Updates on the current state of CIL preparation by
LPAs
• Re-negotiation of S 106 agreements agreed before
April 201 and their effect
• Effects of the latest Government initiatives to free
up housing market...Will they work?
• Proposals for reform of Heritage assets in
Enterprise and Regulatory
• Reform Bill and Government proposals for reform
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Possessory Title - Making a Successful
Application to the Land Registry
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Property Development Update
Webinar/DVD
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Introduction
Introduction
Conveyancing lawyers are often faced with having to make applications to the Land Registry either because
their seller has lost their title deeds or because the seller is occupying land that they do not own.The ability
of the conveyancer to make this application quickly and successfully to the Land Registry is often vital to the
sale transaction proceeding. This webinar is designed for all conveyancing practitioners faced with these less
usual and sometimes difficult applications.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• What steps to take if the deeds have been lost
• What steps to take if your clients occupies more land than they own
• What should the statutory declaration or statement of truth contain?
• What class of title will be awarded?
• Increasing your client’s chance of success
• How to make your application
SPEAKER.
Lorraine Richardson.Lorraine is a practising solicitor based in East Anglia who has delivered legal training
for many years. Lorraine was instrumental in the design and delivery of the Land Registry Qualification and
in addition to delivering property related solicitors’ CPD courses across the country. Lorraine is the co-editor
of the popular Law Society publication “Conveyancing Forms and Procedures”.
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Development or redevelopment projects require close attention to a range of legal and planning issues.
Acquiring land for small-scale infill development can be as complex as site assembly for a major commercial
scheme. Easements, covenants, rights of light, overage and planning obligations can all affect the financial
viability of a scheme, and errors can be extremely costly.
This webinar provides you with an update on recent case law and practice relating to those key issues.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• How to establish whether existing easements and drainage rights can be used on redevelopment or
change of use
• How to ensure that the site will have adequate access
• How to assess the risk of enforcement where a site is affected by restrictive covenants or rights of light
• How to draft contractual provisions to deal with land contamination
• How to draft and protect entitlement to overage and clawback payments
• How to determine whether a project will be subject to planning obligations or community infrastructure
levy
SPEAKER.
Malcolm Dowden has 20 years of commercial property experience. He retains a role in practice as
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is a frequent contributor to the legal and professional press, including the Estates Gazette and New Law
Journal and is an established and well-regarded conference and webinar speaker.
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Rights to Light & Lessons
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Property Notices Getting Them
Right Webinar/DVD
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Introduction
Introduction
Getting property notices right can prove tricky; getting them wrong may prove disastrous for your client.
Whether served under a sales contract, a lease or statute, property notices can be tricky to get right and
this practical session looks at which mistakes are likely to be ‘forgiven’, and which may well prove ‘fatal’.
What you will learn:
• Looking at property notices both generally, and with regard to some specific notices, lessons can be drawn
from recent cases as to the court’s stance on notice mistakes.
• Mistakes as to form and content: Akici v Butlin, Lay v Akerman, MW Trustees v Telular, Green v Westleigh
• Getting service right - and problems with deemed service & rebuttals: Orchard v Reuters, Claire’s
Accessories, Calladine-Smith v Saveorder, Freetown v Assethold
• Particular problems with
• Notices to complete & rescission notices - serving too early, is it a problem?
• Waiving defects in 1954 Act notices
• Enfranchisement notices - prices, names, plans and counter-notices
• Rent review notices - timing and contents
Whether you are Acting for either seller or buyer, easements can be a minefield. This webinar aims to focus
on rights to light both generally and in particular the effect, history and application of s.237 of The Town &
Country Planning Act 1990. If you are not careful, a valuable development can be stymied by the protection
of such rights but conversely their loss can involve substantial reduction of the enjoyment of a property and
financial loss.
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey, Solicitor, was formerly a partner and head of property litigation at Denton Hall,
acting for many blue chip clients. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website, a site
editor for Practical Law Company, a popular and regular speaker at property law conferences and seminars
and a prolific author of articles in legal and property journals on landlord and tenant matters.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor, ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of all
types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice.
He brings many years of practical experience to his presentations.
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Security Over Land - Getting It
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Introduction
This webinar will cover the significant recent developments relating to solicitors who act for lenders.
In relation to the retainer, it will consider the CML Lenders’ Handbook and the BSA Mortgage Instructions. It
will address the incidence and identification of mortgage fraud by reference to the guidance given to solicitors
by the Law Society and to lenders by the CML and BBA. It will also cover the FSA rules applicable to lenders
entering into regulated mortgage contracts, the current position on Etridge and what happens when a
redemption statement is incorrect. In addition, the session will look at the recent case law in order to analyse
the types of act or omission which have, in practice, led to liability on the part of conveyancers or findings of
contributory negligence on the part of lenders.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The express contractual instructions given by lenders to solicitors and conveyancers
• The incidence and avoidance of mortgage fraud
• The statutory regulation of secured lending
• Proposed changes in the regulatory regime
• Undue influence – solicitors’ duties post Etridge
• Lender requests for the disclosure of documents
• Incorrect redemption statements
• Recent case law on: Liability on the part of solicitors and conveyancers; Contributory negligence on the part
of lenders
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What you will learn:
The webinar will cover the following:
• What are rights to light?
• The background, recent history and cases of note
• A detailed examination of the Heaney decision
• Section 237 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and its effect
• Light Obstruction Notices
• Remedies and their availability, measure of damages and timing
• What should a builder/developer do and how should their conveyance advise them?
• Indemnity Insurance - magic sticking plaster or problematical?
• Law Commission View - what might happen next?
• What does CML and BSA Conditions have to say?
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NEW
Protect Your Client’s Interests
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
On 1st September 2012, it became an offence to squat in residential buildings. Is this the end of adverse
possession, or can someone in occupation of buildings or land they don’t own, still acquire title to such
property?
And what does that mean for the Land Registration Act 2002 which apparently “radically altered the rules for
adverse possession”? This webinar will look at the effect of recent case law on the meaning of ‘adverse
possession’, the impact of the new criminal offence and examine what has changed and what hasn’t changed
since 2002.
What you will learn:
Topics included will be:
• Possession - factual, exclusive and with intention: Ramroop v Ishmael, Baxter v Mannion
• What is ‘adverse’ - and how important is it?
• Defeating the claim: consent, acknowledgement of title, estoppel - Ofulue v Bossert, St Pancras v Leonard
• Time limits - do they mean anything anymore?
• The Land Registry’s approach to applications to register - and how to respond
Peter Dodge is primarily a litigator with a commercial chancery practice. Before starting at the Bar, he
worked in the City as a fund manager in the asset management division of a leading investment bank
(where his clients included building societies). His principal areas of practice include property litigation,
general commercial litigation (especially where there are financial or property elements) and associated
professional negligence litigation. He is a frequent speaker on property, banking and financial services topics
and has written for Property in Practice (the quarterly magazine of the Law Society’s Property Section).
Sarah Thompson-Copsey, Solicitor, was formerly a partner and head of property litigation at Denton Hall,
acting for many blue chip clients. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website, a site
editor for Practical Law Company, a popular and regular speaker at property law conferences and seminars
and a prolific author of articles in legal and property journals on landlord and tenant matters.
Visit www.mblseminars.com or email information@mblseminars.com to register.
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Structuring to Avoid the Landlord &
Tenant Act 1987 Part 1
NEW Tenants’ Pre-emption Rights Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Residential tenants’ pre-emption rights can seriously curtail a landlord’s ability to sell an interest in a building
with residential tenants, but breaching the Act leads to dire consequences for both landlord and purchaser.
NEW
What you will learn:
This session will focus on the different ways of structuring a landlord’s arrangements so as to avoid the need
for compliance with the Act, including:
• Taking the premises outside the Act
• Taking the landlord outside the Act
• Reducing the numbers of qualifying tenants
• Taking the disposal outside the Act
SPEAKERS.
Sarah Thompson-Copsey and Peta Dollar. Sarah Thompson-Copsey, former partner and head of
property litigation at Denton Hall. She is a member of the editorial team of the Property Law website, a
prolific author in legal and property journals on landlord and tenant matters, and a popular speaker at
property law seminars. Peta Dollar, former partner at Denton Wilde Sapte for 17 years where much of her
time focussed on major development projects. Peta is now a full-time freelance lecturer, trainer and writer
and regularly publishes articles in leading journals.
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The Conveyancing Protocol & The
New TA6, TA10 & TA11 Forms
Webinar/DVD
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Tenancy Deposit Schemes
Under the Housing Act
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Tenancy deposits under the Housing Act 2004 are one of the most common problems facing landlord and
tenant lawyers, whether acting for landlords, estate agents or tenants. The range of ways in which a
landlord can fail to comply with the provisions is only now becoming realised (e.g. Ayannuga v Swindells,
Court of Appeal, November 2012) and the potential penalties for a landlord, whether in failing to recover
possession or in statutory damages, are significant. With the amendments made by the Localism Act 2012
now fully in force, this is an excellent time to review the initial workings of the scheme and the postamendment position.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The tenancy deposit scheme
• What was it trying to do?
• How did it work when initially enacted?
• What is a deposit?
• Who had to arrange protection?
• What information had to be provided?
• What were the penalties?
• Was late compliance possible?
• The Localism Act amendments
• What has changed? (Damages, late
compliance)
• The transitional provisions
• Outstanding issues
SPEAKER.
Justin Bates is a barrister at Arden Chambers. He is the Deputy General Editor of the Encyclopedia of
Housing Law and author or co-author of a number of other housing law works, including annotated
statutes, books and articles. He is a contributor to the Nearly Legal blog and the vice-chair of the Housing
Law Practitioners Association.
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The Conveyancing Protocol
Revisited Webinar/DVD
Introduction
Introduction
In 2012, the Law Society consulted widely on making changes to the Protocol. This included asking whether
preliminary enquiries should be restricted or expanded in scope; and whether form TA6 should be
comprehensive or simply request the requisite information.
This webinar considers the changes to the Protocol and the New Forms that are due to be announced in May
2013.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The Protocol - The focus will be on changes to the Protocol resulting from the Law Society’s consultation
• The New Forms - the amendments to the TA6, TA10 and TA11 forms explained. The emphasis will be on
the additional enquiries and changes to existing questions in the TA6, including:
• The Green Deal, Japanese knotweed, Solar panels
• Disputes, Planning matters, Central heating boilers
• Septic tanks, Build over agreements, Conservatories
• Planning, Building Regulations & Competent person schemes
• Flooding & buildings insurance, Radon gas, Copies of the EPC
• Overriding interests & Insolvency
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
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The objectives of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme are to raise standards of conveyancing,
improve conveyancers’ credibility, and deter fraud.
Updated for 2013, this webinar will examine key aspects of the Protocol which are an integral part of CQS.
In particular, it will consider their legal and practical implications at various stages in the conveyancing
process, including when negotiating the terms of the contract.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the implications of the Protocol in respect of:
• Adult occupiers, Third party interests in the property, shared or joint ownership
• Obtaining redemption figures, source of funds, documentation
• Restrictions on the register
• Leasehold conveyancing - enquiries, managing agents, third party consents to sale
• Providing evidence of the seller’s title, new build incentives, undertakings
• Amendments to contract, Vacant possession
SPEAKER.
Stephen Desmond, Solicitor. Stephen has represented both business and private property clients and has
been a CPD speaker since 2004.
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The Green Deal for
Conveyancers Webinar/DVD
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NEW
NEW
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The New Annual
Residential Property Tax
Webinar/DVD
Introduction
From January 2013, the Green Deal will affect all conveyancers. There is clearly no incentive on residential
landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their properties – they don’t pay the energy bills. The Green
Deal will encourage both residential owners and tenants to apply for energy efficient improvements to
their properties on long term loans.
• Are these loans to be repaid by the current or ‘novated’ to future owner or tenant?
• Prospective buyers and new tenants MUST be notified of any existing green deal loans - find out how
• Photo Voltaic panels are one of the green deal options. Are they owned by the house owner or has he
leased his roof out to someone else
• How do lenders view PV panels on a house roof? What are the problems with these schemes? What
does the Lenders Handbook say about PV panels?
Introduction
This webinar is aimed at property professionals and tax advisers including solicitors, conveyancers,
chartered tax advisers, accountants and chartered surveyors.The New ARPT comes into effect on 1 April
2013 and creates a charge of between £15,000 and £140,000 per annum on residential properties worth
more than £2m that are owned by companies, partnerships and collective investment schemes. The first tax
return is due by 1 October 2013 and the first tax payment is due by 30 October 2013 and thereafter by 30
April each year.45 pages of detailed draft legislation governing the new tax was published late last year for
inclusion in this year’s Finance Bill so we now know the ins and outs of the new charge. There are some
unexpected but welcome reliefs and detailed compliance requirements. The tax is separate from but related
to SDLT.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Basics of the Green Deal
• The prescribed notice to prospective buyers /tenants
• Enquiry before contract / TA6
• PV roof panels
• Different schemes
• Possible problems
• Lenders Handbook requirements
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• Scope of the new tax
• Exceptions, reliefs and other ways to avoid falling within the charge
• De-enveloping, other taxes to watch out for
• Alternative property holding structures
• Valuation issues
• Practical compliance issues
SPEAKER.
SPEAKER.
Keith Worrall, Solicitor, and practitioner with 30 years experience and a CPD speaker for over 14 years.
Keith has a wealth of experience from 'both sides of the track' and has an intuitive feel for delegates'
preferences on the practical aspects of attending CPD seminars. He is renowned for his charismatic and
relaxed style of delivery and makes seminar attendance enjoyable as well as productive and informative.
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Patrick Cannon, Barrister at Tax Chambers, 15 Old Square. Patrick is the author of Tolley’s Stamp Taxes
2012/13 and the general editor of Tolley’s Property Taxation 2012/13. His new book entitled The Law and
Practice of the GAAR will be published by Key Haven later in 2013.
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The Protection of Third Party
Interests in the Register
Webinar/DVD
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NEW
Introduction
Not only do conveyancers need to be aware of the respective interests of their client as transferor or
transferee or those of “the other side” (and interests which must be completed by substantive registration)
but also of the interests of third parties and how your client’s title might be affected. It may be you will act
for such a Third Party and will need to be aware of the options open to you.This introductory level webinar
aims to clarify how you may make an application for a notice or restriction to protect such interests. We will
also examine the effect of entries which are already on the register and the kinds of application which you
may make in respect of those.
What you will learn:
This webinar will cover the following:
• The priority of competing interests
• What are Notices? What can and cannot be protected, how do you enter them and make applications
• What is the difference between an Agreed and a Unilateral notice?
• Cancellation and variation of notices
• What are Restrictions? How do you enter and make applications for them, the forms, special rules for
leases, Court orders
• The removal and cancellation of restrictions, cancellation and modification
• A look at Standard Form Restrictions and their particular wording
• What are Cautions against Dealings, what are the options open to the cautioner and how can they be
withdrawn?
• Examples of common Third Party Rights and suggestions as to their protection
SPEAKER.
Paul Tobias, Solicitor, ran his own High Street practice for many years concentrating on conveyancing of
all types. He has subsequently presented many seminars and training courses on various aspects of practice. He brings many years of practical experience to his presentations.
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MBL Seminars Limited, The Mill House,
6 Worsley Road, Worsley, Manchester M28 2NL
MBL Seminars Limited is accredited for CPD purposes by The Solicitors Regulation Authority, The Bar Standards Board, The Institute of Paralegals and The Institute of Legal Executives.
MBL Property seminars are accredited by The Council for Licensed Conveyancers. MBL Wills and Probate seminars are accredited by the Institute of Professional Willwriters.
MBL Pensions seminars are accredited by The Pensions Management Institute. A small selection of MBL Personal Injury seminars are accredited by APIL Training.
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