Public Courses
Lorraine is delivering the following courses:
1: Residential Property: An intensive introduction for qualified practitioners - full day
2: Acting for a buyer on a new build: Pitfall and Tips - half day
3: Conveyancing searches and enquiries: Best Practice - half day
4: Conveyancing: An intensive workshop for paralegals and support staff
5: Conduct conundrums in conveyancing - half day
6: Conveyancing Complaints and How to Handle Them - half day
7: Building Safety Act 2022 - half day
COURSE BOOKING FORM IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE
Currently all courses are run online, and we will endeavour to run courses on dates and times to suit enquiries.
1: Residential Property: An intensive introduction for qualified practitioners
Full day course – 6 CPD hours
Are you a qualified lawyer looking to move into residential property practice? Are you returning to conveyancing after a career break and need a comprehensive refresher? If so, this course is designed with you in mind – and you won’t need any prior knowledge of conveyancing beforehand.
This course is intensive but highly practical, with us taking you through the fundamentals of conveyancing. You will also benefit from clear flowcharts of the residential conveyancing process.
This course will cover:
This course gives you a practical overview of residential conveyancing, and highlights the frequent pitfalls that you are likely to deal with, including:
•An overview of the conveyancing transaction
•Identifying your client and the source of funds; why it’s your responsibility
•Review of searches available in the market
•Explanation of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme
•The Law Society’s National Conveyancing Protocol and the new forms
•Key risk areas: UK Finance and your duty to lenders
•Overview of the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and how it differs from stamp duty •Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition)
•Changes in Land Registry practice; official copies of the land register replacing office copies
Dates
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Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
2: Acting for a buyer on a new build: Pitfalls and Tips
Half day course - 3 CPD hours
With residential developments being built across the country to provide housing for an ever-growing population, it’s important to be confident when advising a buyer of a new build. You will undoubtedly be supplied with a mountain of paperwork from the developer – particularly if the property is part of a multi-plot development.
Developers typically impose deadlines by which exchange must take place, and clients have usually paid reservation deposits and are keen to meet the deadline. But as the legal adviser, you will have many legal and practical issues to consider, including planning and community infrastructure levy (CIL) issues, adoption of roads and section 106 agreements, and important matters of title.
We will provide you with useful practical guidance and updates on the documents you may well receive, and the statutory frameworks applicable. You will also be equipped with practical and effective ways to improve your investigations and reporting, reflecting the reality of fixed fees in this area of practice.
If you are a residential conveyancing solicitor or other practitioner dealing with new builds, whatever your level of experience or years of qualification, this course is designed for you. More junior members of the team will find the course an invaluable overview of the issues common to most new builds, while the more experienced practitioner will find it a useful refresher and update.
This course will cover
•Section 38, Section 104 and Section 106 agreements, and how your client may be affected
•NHBC and similar schemes: what you need to do
•UK Finance requirements: reporting requirements
•Planning Issues: the CIL and how it may affect your client
•Covenants and restrictions, and ensuring they benefit the property
•Reporting to your client effectively
Dates
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Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
3: Conveyancing Searches and Enquiries: Best Practice
Half day course – 3 CPD hours
As a residential conveyancer, you will know that there is an ever-growing list of suggested searches and enquiries to be carried out in a residential purchase transaction. Knowing how best to approach the huge range of pre-contractual searches and enquiries can be daunting, particularly as you seek to protect your clients’ interests throughout the transaction.
What is today’s best practice? How should you even begin to decide which enquiries are appropriate? This course is designed to enable you to identify which searches and enquiries to carry out, and common problems which can arise in the search results themselves
We will take you through this vital topic, highlighting frequent problem search results – and how far you can reasonably be expected to deal with them.
This course will cover:
This course covers the essentials of searches and enquiries, and how to deal with tricky areas, including:
•An overview of which searches you should carry out
•Common but tricky search results
•Further enquiries you should raise when you have received the search results
•Acceptable responses to your enquiries from the other side
Dates
Please contact us for dates
Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
4: Conveyancing: An intensive workshop for paralegals and support staff
Full day course – 6 CPD hours
As a conveyancing paralegal or junior staff member, you may be looking to consolidate your practical knowledge of the conveyancing process so you can take on more responsibility. If you are a more senior member of the conveyancing team, you may be looking to safely delegate more of your conveyancing work to your support staff. Whether you are a paralegal, a secretary or another support staff member in the conveyancing team, this is a highly practical introductory course designed with you in mind. If your firm needs to meet the ongoing training requirements of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme, this course will help ensure your firm’s standards of conveyancing are maintained.
We will help you understand more about the conveyancing process, and how to respond to common enquiries and search results. As a conveyancer, drafting the documents is a key skill. In this course, you will also be taken through how to draft the sale contract, as well as looking at a registered title. You will benefit from clear flowcharts of the residential conveyancing process with explanatory notes, together with a suite of the completed forms.
This course will cover:
•Where your work fits in with the conveyancing transaction
•The importance of taking client instructions and understanding vital preliminary matters
•An overview of the entire conveyancing transaction
•The purpose of the main forms you will come across in a conveyancing transaction
•Consideration of a registered title
•Drafting a sale contract
•How to respond to search results on a purchase
This course is suitable for anyone who carries out conveyancing work
Dates
Please contact us for dates
Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
5: Conduct Conundrums in Conveyancing
Half day course – 3 CPD hours
Legal professionals are bound by rules of professional conduct. A failure to comply with these obligations can have serious consequences for the individuals involved and the firm.
There are conduct issues that are of particular relevance to conveyancing work - this practical course will consider confidentiality, conflicts of interest and undertakings. Delegate participation and comment will be encouraged.
This course will cover:
•What is the duty of confidentiality?
•What is an undertaking and how do we recognise one?
•What are conflicts of interest and how do we identify them?
•What do the new SRA Standards and Regulations say?
•How do these link to effective client care?
•Why should we care?
•What if things go wrong?
This course is suitable for anyone who carries out conveyancing work
Dates
Please contact us for dates
Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
6: Conveyancing Complaints and How to Handle Them
Half day course – 3 CPD hours
Client complaints are the ever-present issue of concern to all law firms. Mix this with the pressure of conveyancing work and firms have a toxic mix.
This practical course will consider how firms might manage client expectation and identify client concerns before they become a complaint. We will consider how client satisfaction might be monitored. Discussion with delegates will be encouraged.
This course will cover:
•What is a complaint?
•Common conveyancing complaints
•The Law Society’s Practice Note on Handling Complaints
•What are the firm’s duties and responsibilities under the new Standards and Regulations?
•How do we identify complaints?
•How can we improve client satisfaction?
This course is suitable for anyone who carries out conveyancing work
Dates
Please contact us for dates
Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
7: Building Safety Act 2022 - an overview
Half day course – 3 CPD hours
This course will cover:
•What is the Leaseholder Deed of Certificate?
•What is the Landlord’s Certificate?
•Changes to LPE1
•Problems with the Lenders
•Key risks for Conveyancer
This course is suitable for anyone who carries out conveyancing work
Dates
Please contact us for dates
Venue: At your offices or online via Zoom
Cost
Please ask for costs as is dependent on delegate numbers and whether online or in person training - lorraine@adaptlaw.co.uk
Adapt Law members discount – 50%
Note: If you want to make a booking for more than one delegate from the same firm, please contact us and we will confirm your multiple booking discount.
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