ONLINE COURSE: Tricky Conveyancing Transactions: A Practitioner’s Guide

As a property lawyer, you are expected to manage client expectations while staying one step ahead of the risks. That becomes far harder when you are having to assess a conveyancing transaction built on limited, imperfect or evolving information.

This course highlights a selection of transactions that can quickly go wrong, and the issues within them that, if missed or mishandled, can lead to complaints, claims or sleepless nights.

We will examine practical solutions and approaches that can be adapted to the complex, fact-specific issues that can arise in tricky transactions.

The main points covered by this course will include:

• What can be done where the property shares a drainage system but there are no adequate mutual rights or obligations between the owners?
• A listed building that has been altered without the required listed building cons: understanding and managing the enforcement risks.
• Missing or incomplete deeds: absent access rights, boundary uncertainty, and covenants where the wording or context cannot be established.
• Defective rights of way: key legal and practical risks for buyers,
• Planning uncertainty: seller claims works were permitted development — but do they really fall within PD?
• The seller wants to withhold key information: risks to the client and the conveyancer.
• Breach of restrictive covenant: multiple breaches, height restrictions, and building scheme issues.

Feedback from previous sessions with Stephen

• Stephen was able to maintain interest on topics
• He is very informative and engaging
• Stephen was very knowledgeable. His examples are very relevant
• He provides a very helpful thorough overview