Virtual Conference: Residential Conveyancing – Autumn Update 2022

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KEY SUBJECTS

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

• REPORTING TO LENDERS: WHAT ARE THE OBLIGATIONS?
• RESIDENTIAL EASEMENTS UPDATE
• ADVERSE POSSESSION UPDATE
• RESIDENTIAL CONVEYANCING PRACTICE UPDATE

SPEAKER

David Keighley, Solicitor, Legal Lecturer and Trainer

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

1.30pm CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

REPORTING TO LENDERS: WHAT ARE THE OBLIGATIONS?

An outline of practical issues relating to solicitors’ obligations in reporting to lenders in the context of residential conveyancing including:

• The UKFML Handbook and the significance of case law
• Reporting obligations
• Certificate of Title
• What documents is a lender entitled to ask you to produce?

RESIDENTIAL EASEMENTS UPDATE

An outline of practical issues relating to easements in the context of residential conveyancing including:

• Abandonment and restrictive covenants
• The “dangers” arising from Land Registry backlog
• Extending an easement to adjoining land; the concept of “ancillary use”
• Intensifying the use of an easement
• Encroachment on Right of Way
• Limits of Right of Way

ADVERSE POSSESSION UPDATE

• What can constitute physical possession? Thorpe v Frank 2019 EWCA Civ 150
• Intention to possess; impact of easements: Amirtharaja v White [2021] EWHC 330 (Ch)
• Impact of Dowse v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council [2020] UKUT 0202 (LC)
• Fraud: Rashid v Nasrullah [2018] EWCA Civ 2685

RESIDENTIAL CONVEYANCING PRACTICE UPDATE

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

David Keighley, Solicitor, Legal Lecturer and Trainer

5.00pm CLOSE OF PROCEEDINGS