Residential Conveyancing – Autumn Update 2025

This half day course is designed to update conveyancers with topical issues and will provide a practical look at the developments in law and how they will affect day-to-day working practices.

• THE 6^TH EDITION OF THE TA6 (SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION OCTOBER 2025) AND OTHER ISSUES RELATING TO ENQUIRIES
• DEALING WITH VULNERABLE CLIENTS
• RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS AND RIGHTS OF WAY
• MISCELLANEOUS PRACTICE POINTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

SPEAKER

David Keighley, Solicitor, Legal Lecturer and Trainer

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

1.30pm CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

THE 6TH EDITION OF THE TA6 AND OTHER ISSUES RELATING TO ENQUIRIES 

• The contents of the 6^th Edition of the TA6
• Advising clients on completing the TA6 and replying to additional enquiries
• Is it ever safe to answer “no” in the TA6?
• Protocol Restrictions and Guidance
• The “GRACE” initiative

DEALING WITH VULNERABLE CLIENTS

• Who is your client?
• Financial Abuse
• Dealing with attorneys or deputies
• Mental capacity
• Duress and undue influence

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS OF WAY

This part of the presentation will look at the reform provisions already enacted & further proposals now tabled before Parliament & outlined in the Kings Speech.

THE NEW PLANNING AND BUILDING REGULATION ENFORCEMENT REGIMES

• Restrictive Covenants: Obsolescence and Acquiescence
• Abandonment of an easement
• Intensification and/or extending the scope of an easement of easements
• Encroachment on rights of way
• Limits on a right of way for domestic property
• Proving a Right of Way

MISCELLANEOUS PRACTICE POINTS AND LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

An overview of recent case law, practice guides and related developments. To ensure the content is both topical and relevant the exact issues to be covered will be determined nearer the time.

David Keighley, Solicitor, Legal Lecturer and Trainer

5.00pm CLOSE OF PROCEEDINGS