Residential Conveyancing Update & Dealing with Tricky Problems 2020

All residential property solicitors will appreciate both the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest developments in law and practice and how difficult that can be. This session aims to help you by cutting through the academic niceties and focusing on making things relevant for the busy practitioners.

It will focus on recent case law and statutes and examine the implications for residential practice. To ensure it is as up-to-date as possible the precise content of this session will depend on developments prior to the event.

Issues covered may include:

• Adverse Possession – Changes to Law & Practice
• Easements – Fencing, Rights of Way, Intensification
• Rentcharges
• Leasehold Covenants
• Land Registry – Practice Guide Updates
• General Practice Issues
• Recent Caselaw

Speaker:-  David Keighley was admitted as a solicitor in 1982. Until his retirement from full time practice in September 2016 David was a partner in and Head of Residential property at Herrington Carmichael a Legal 500 Practice. Having done so part time whilst in practice, he now uses his extensive experience to offer practical guidance in lectures at property law conferences, seminars, webinars, audio seminars, training courses and related events. The feedback received from delegates attending his lectures & courses has been exceptional including the comment “The best speaker I have ever heard”

He is a contributing author for the Law Society Conveyancing Handbook, was the co-author of an online training course for the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS), is the deputy editor of the newsletter issued monthly by Propertylawuk.net and has written for publications including the Law Society’s Property in Practice Magazine and the Solicitors Journal.