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5 Common Conveyancing Assumptions Clients Make - Live at Your Desk - Learn Live

Length
3 hours
Next course start
23 May, 2025 (+2 start dates)
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
3 hours
Next course start
23 May, 2025 (+2 start dates)
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

Course description

Clients often make wrong assumptions and think everything is risk-free. Conveyancers assume they have covered it in their reports, but the message doesn’t get through. The result is complaints and claims.


Presented by expert speaker Hannah Mackinlay, this virtual classroom seminar will take a detailed look into 5 common assumptions in conveyancing, and how you can clear these up with your clients.


Hannah will discuss boundaries, and how the Land Registry red line doesn’t show your legal boundary, road adoption on new estates, what title insurance doesn’t do, and what your client needs to realise, environmental searches and ‘false negatives’, and why 40% of SDLT returns are wrong.

Upcoming start dates

Choose between 2 start dates

23 May, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

4 November, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

Training Course Content

Introduction

Clients often make wrong assumptions and think everything is risk free.

Conveyancers assume they have covered it in their reports, but the message doesn’t get through. The result is complaints and claims.

This virtual classroom seminar will take a detailed look into 5 common assumptions in conveyancing and how you can clear these assumptions up with your clients.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

  • Boundaries - the Land Registry red line doesn’t show your legal boundary:
    • Deeds, plans, features and history - plus how to explain this to the client and prevent negligence
  • Road adoption on new estates - they may never be adopted
    • Failed road adoptions are at epidemic levels with some well-known house builders intentionally not completing the procedure. Why is this - What are the risks to your client and what should you warn clients about
  • What title insurance doesn’t do, and what the client needs to realise
    • How to comply with your new obligations under the Insurance Directive, when it is and is not a good idea, what to look out for in policies and what to tell the client
  • Environmental searches and ‘false negatives’
    • Many horribly contaminated sites will get a ‘pass’ on an environmental search! What they do and do not tell you, what to tell clients, and what to look for
  • Stamp Duty Land Tax - 40% of SDLT returns are wrong
    • PI insurers are worried about SDLT becoming the new PPI scandal. What are the 5 key mistakes made in this most complex of taxes and why relying on a disclaimer will not work. How to spot issues and ensure the right tax is paid.

Expenses

From £144
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

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