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clt.co.uk JANUARY – JUNE 2019
Property Law
Your Training Guide
Central Law Training
Your Property Law
Training Guide
With the practice year 2018-19 now well underway, it’s time to focus on your learning and
development needs for the year. Whatever your personal development goals for 2019, look
ahead and plan your training schedule now.
Central Law Training, the UK’s leading provider of post-qualification training for legal
professionals, provides an unparalleled range of training courses, conferences, webinars
and e-learning. These are delivered by expert speakers to help you develop your skills and
knowledge and meet the SRA’s requirements. This guide contains details of our training
taking place January – June 2019. To view our full range of training please visit
www.clt.co.uk.
With experience of working closely with firms of all sizes, corporates and public bodies, we
are the perfect legal training partner to help you maximise your training budget and ensure
you and your firm receive the training that you need.
A Key to Your Training Guide
To help you identify the right training for you, each course is tagged with the SRA
competency area(s) that it covers, the training duration and level.
SRA Competences Length of training and prices
3 3 hour course
Ethics, professionalism £112.50 + VAT Package price
and judgement £127.50 + VAT CLT Members / £255.00 + VAT Non-members
5 5 hour course
Technical legal £187.50 + VAT Package price
practice £255.00 + VAT CLT Members / £510.00 + VAT Non-members
6 6 hour course
Working with
£225.00 + VAT Package price
other people £255.00 + VAT CLT Members / £510.00 + VAT Non-members
Managing themselves
12 2 day course
and their own work £450.00 + VAT Package price
£510.00 + VAT CLT Members / £1020.00 + VAT Non-members
5
5 hour Masterclass
£187.50 + VAT Package price
£315.00 + VAT CLT Members / £630.00 + VAT Non-members
6 6 hour Masterclass
£225.00 + VAT Package price
£315.00 + VAT CLT Members / £630.00 + VAT Non-members
Webinars are 1 hour
£37.50 + VAT Package price
£65.00 + VAT CLT Members / £130.00 + VAT Non-members
Contents Property Law Acting for Developers Buying Land 8 Buying and Selling Rural Property NEW 7 Charity Land Transactions 9 Investment Property Sales and Purchases 6 Mixed Use and Residential Tenants’ Rights 9 Property Development: Practical Problems NEW 8 Sales and Purchases of Part – Freeholds and Leaseholds 6 Commercial Property Law 10 Tricky Commercial Property Problems 13 Agreements for Lease: The Basics 16 Agreements for Lease: The Next Step 16 Certificate in Commercial Leases 17 Commercial Leases: 2019 Masterclass 18 Commercial Property: Introduction for Paralegals 11 Commercial Property: Introduction to Law and Practice; Day 1 10 Commercial Property: Introduction to Law and Practice; Day 2 10 Commercial Property Update 2019 11 Development Land: Overage and Clawback 15 Effective Reporting on Title NEW 14 Insolvency for Property Lawyers NEW 21 Land Registration: Key Issues in Commercial Property NEW 14 Property Development Contracts: Advanced Issues 15 Property Law: An Advanced Course for Local Authority Lawyers 12 Property Law: An Introduction for Local Authority Lawyers NEW 12 Retail Leases: What You Need to Know NEW 21
Commercial Property Law Continued SDLT for Commercial Property Lawyers (including Commercial Leases) 20 Short Term and Undocumented Occupation: A Toolkit 19 Tackling Tricky Issues in Commercial Leases 19 Commercial Property Litigation Certificate in Commercial Property Litigation 22 Conveyancing Update 2019 23 Residential Property Law Acting for a Buyer on a New Build: Pitfalls and Tips 33 An Introduction to Enfranchisement and Lease Extension 31 Conveyancing: An Intensive Workshop for Paralegals and Support Staff 24 Conveyancing Searches and Enquiries: Best Practice NEW 28 Covenants: Current Law and Practice 30 Cybercrime and Fraud in Conveyancing NEW 27 Dealing With Residential Property Problems 29 Dealing with Unregistered Land in Conveyancing 29 Dilapidations: Thinking Tactically and Practically 23 Easements: Current Law and Practice 30 High Risk and Unusual Clients in Conveyancing NEW 27 Land Registration: Key Issues in Residential Property NEW 28 Land Transaction Tax in Wales 26 Residential Leases: Issues on Sale and Purchase 32 Residential Mortgages: Tricky Issues in Law and Practice 32 Residential Property: An Intensive Introduction for Qualified Practitioners 24 SDLT Walkthrough and Workshop for Residential Property Lawyers 26 Shared Ownership and Help to Buy: Acting for the Purchaser 33
Residential Landlord and Tenant Law Certificate in Housing Law 35 Residential Lettings: Statutory Requirements and What They Mean in Practice NEW 36 Planning Law An Overview of Planning Law 36 Certificate in Planning 37 Construction Law Certificate in Construction Law 38 Concurrent Delay and Construction Insurance NEW 39 Construction Law Update 2019 NEW 39 Webinars A selection of our Property Law webinars, see individual webinars for the SRA competences covered 40 Management and Skills Courses A selection of our Management & Personal Skills courses, see individual courses for the SRA competences covered 42
6 | Property Law
HOT TOPIC HOT TOPIC
Sales and Purchases Investment Property
of Part – Freeholds Sales and Purchases
and Leaseholds
3 Intermediate
3 Intermediate
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey
Investors in property are focused on the rental
stream, how secure it is and its potential
It will be unusual if you never have to deal with the
for growth. This leads to the concept of the
sale or purchase of part of a title as a conveyancer.
institutionally-acceptable lease.
Whether you are a solicitor or other practitioner
dealing with commercial or residential property, The speakers share their extensive practical
a key skill is understanding how to effectively experience of the traps and pitfalls that make a
approach sales and purchases of part of freehold difference to your client investor, whether you are
and leasehold land and property. acting for seller or buyer.
Challenges and traps can arise in any transaction This half day course will cover:
involving a sale or purchase of part, whether you are
• Buying an income stream, FRI and the
dealing with a domestic garden, hundreds of acres
institutionally-acceptable lease
of land, or the splitting of commercial premises.
• The concept of yields
This course covers the fundamentals of sales and • Looking at lease issues from the point of
purchases of part, and the particular issues you view of the investor client, including AGAs,
will need to address, including: rent review provisions, tenant break options,
alterations, user, guarantees, repair, insurance,
• Split reversions and potential complications
service charges, forfeiture, 54 Act renewals
• The status of existing rights, section 62 Law of
• Issues on contract, including landlord’s consent
Property Act, and the rule in Wheeldon
where the seller is itself a tenant
v Burrows
• VAT (TOGCs)
• Granting and reserving new rights and easements
• Issues when buying or selling at auction
• Passing on (or retaining) the benefit of existing
restrictive covenants This course is aimed at all commercial property
• Imposing new restrictive covenants practitioners with a good basic knowledge of
• Splitting planning obligations under section property law whose clients deal in investment
106 agreements property and who want to add value.
• Issues involving the Community Infrastructure
Levy where there is a single planning
permission for sold and retained land
London 25 Apr am London 2 May pm
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BEST SELLER
Buying and Selling
Rural Property NEW Central Law
3 Intermediate
Training
Ian Quayle
Competence
This course highlights common problems
Gateway
encountered in connection with the sale and
purchase of rural residential properties.
Develop your competence,
track your progress
This course focuses on the following issues:
• Dealing with plans and boundaries
• Common land and village greens
• Easements
• Restrictive covenants Select
• Drainage issues and septic tanks
• Sporting rights
• Agricultural issues – impacting on
residential properties
• Taxation issues for second homes and
holiday lettings
The course involves examining two case studies
and an exploration of relevant case law. Reflect
Collect
A FREE* online tool to help you
manage and track your learning
and development under the
continuing competence regime
London 11 Jun pm
Bristol 12 Jun am
York 18 Jun pm Find out more:
www.clt.co.uk/gateway
*for Central Law Training Members CLTA10820
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BEST SELLER BEST SELLER
Acting for Developers Property Development:
Buying Land Practical Problems NEW
6 Intermediate 6 Intermediate
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey Hannah Mackinlay
This course is aimed at all property practitioners If you act for land and property developers, you
(whether commercial or residential) whose will know that your work involves much more
clients buy land to develop. The term ‘developer’ than the standard conveyancing procedures. This
includes not only the buyer of several acres course is a practical workshop on the tips and
but also the purchase of a small plot for one traps of property development, enabling you to
building. Any client buying with the benefit of tackle your legal work more efficiently.
unimplemented planning permission or looking
Whether you are a solicitor or other practitioner
to apply for planning permission is a ‘developer’.
acting for developers, this course is designed for
Your client is expecting you to help them realise you. You will particularly consider the common
development value, so are you aware of the but vital non-title issues you need to master to do
existing title and other issues which may impact your work successfully.
on value? Do you have sound knowledge to
Our well known and respected property expert,
be able to negotiate matters required for the
Hannah Mackinlay, will take you through the key
developed land?
practical problems of acting for developers that
This course utilises worked examples and case you are likely to come across in practice. You will
studies to illustrate the key issues involved in benefit from practical examples, exercises and
acting for developers, including: puzzles to solve, enabling you to deal with these
matters with much greater confidence.
• Dealing with existing restrictive covenants,
easements, and other third-party rights • The big picture – communication and
• Boundary issues reporting issues
• Ransom strips and sites not directly abutting • Let’s get physical – what’s on the ground?
the public highway Unexpected SDLT consequences
• Conditional contracts and options, especially • Plans, site surveys and gaps
planning issues • Searches – reading between the lines
• Overage • Environmental issues
• Section 106 and Community Infrastructure • SDLT planning points
Levy issues • Planning, S.106, CIL, conditions, open spaces
• Stopping up and diverting highways • Highway access, vision splays, and related issues
and footpaths • Rights of way/services, s.62 and easements points
• Site surveys and contamination
London 6 Feb, 20 Jun London 13 Mar
Manchester 3 Apr
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Mixed Use and Residential Charity Land Transactions
Tenants’ Rights
3 Advanced
6 Intermediate
Jane Lonergan
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey
This course guides you through the obligations
and requirements applying on the acquisition,
This course is aimed at the commercial property
mortgage or disposal of land where charities
practitioner who advises on the purchase, sale,
are involved. If you are a commercial property
management or development of mixed use
solicitor or other practitioner advising charities
buildings. It is also aimed at residential property
(or the parties who deal with charities), this
practitioners who advise on residential multi-let
course is for you.
buildings, and at those who advise tenants
and landlords in mixed use and wholly The course covers the Charities Acts of 1993 and
residential buildings. 2006 and the new consolidating legislation in the
Charities Act 2011 and will look at:
The course covers:
• Charities – introduction for property lawyers
• Residential tenants’ rights of first refusal
• Disposals by a charity and ss.117
under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
• Mortgages by a charity and ss.55, 124 – 126
(as amended)
Charities Act 2011
• Enfranchisement of ‘houses’ under the
• Acquisitions by a charity
Leasehold Reform Act 1967, when does this
• Commercial leases generally and specific issues
apply to mixed use buildings?
for charities
• Collective enfranchisement under the
• Official custodian for charities – s.122 certificates
Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban
• Some common issues, including title issues
Development Act 1993
• Rights to manage under the Commonhold and
Leasehold Reform Act 2002
• Residential tenants’ service charge rights
• Practical steps for landlords and tenants to
avoid common traps and pitfalls, structuring to
avoid the impact of the legislation
• Frequently asked questions and problems
Very knowledgeable presenter.
This is a rare opportunity to get to grips with a
Very engaging seminar
current hot topic for clients and lawyers alike and
ask questions of expert speakers.
London 24 Apr London 25 Mar pm
01210121
362 7705
362 7705
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| client.services@clt.co.uk10 | Commercial Property Law
Commercial Property: Commercial Property:
Introduction to Law Introduction to Law
and Practice; Day 1 and Practice; Day 2
6 Foundation 6 Foundation
Hannah Mackinlay Hannah Mackinlay
Whether you are a paralegal just starting out in The particular focus of this course is commercial
commercial property, a junior member of the leases. If you participated in Day 1 of this course, you
commercial property department, or even a will undoubtedly benefit from Day 2 where you will
fee earner moving into a commercial property consolidate what you have already learnt. Day 2 also
department for the first time – this course will prove serves as a standalone, separate one-day course if
invaluable to your work. you want to enhance your existing knowledge and
experience of commercial property leases.
Our well known and respected property expert,
Hannah Mackinlay, will take you through the key This course is designed for junior members of
aspects of commercial property law and practice commercial property departments with little or no
– along with invaluable handouts to help you knowledge or experience in commercial property
understand the law practically. You’ll go away with a law. It is also ideal if you are a fee earner moving
comprehensive grounding in the essential law and into a commercial property department for the
practice in commercial property, including landlord first time and want to get to grips with the basics of
and tenant. commercial leases.
This course covers the basics of commercial Our well known and respected property expert,
property conveyancing, and the key issues you will Hannah Mackinlay, will take you through the key
come across in practice, including: steps of commercial leases. You will be given a
firm grounding in the essential law and practice
• Explaining the jargon
of business leases, equipping you to have a more
• The big picture
valuable, hands on role in practice.
• Explaining the ‘players’ involved in a
commercial property matter • A typical business lease
• Introduction to basic land law • Negotiating a commercial lease: key points to
• A brief overview of leasehold law watch out for
• An outline of basic conveyancing procedures • The code of practice for commercial leases
• Sale and purchase of commercial property • Statutory protection for business tenants;
• Planning and other statutory requirements Landlord & Tenant Act 1954
• Assignment of commercial leases
• Stamp Duty Land Tax
London 8 Jan, 18 Jun London 9 Jan, 19 Jun
Manchester 5 Mar Manchester 6 Mar
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BEST SELLER
Commercial Property: Commercial Property
Introduction for Update 2019
Paralegals
5 Update
6 Foundation Natasha Dunn or Sarah Thompson-Copsey
Hannah Mackinlay It is vital that you keep up-to-date with
commercial property and related developments
If you have little or no knowledge of commercial alongside running a busy practice. This is a key
property law, this course has been designed with up-to-the-minute course enjoying a well-earned
you in mind. Whether you are a paralegal just reputation for being an absolute ‘must’ for busy
starting out in commercial property or a junior practitioners. It will ensure you are completely
member of the commercial property department up to scratch with the latest law and practice,
seeking a basic grounding in commercial including commercial landlord and tenant.
property, this course is for you.
Whether you are a commercial property solicitor
Whatever your role, your knowledge will be or other practitioner, you will benefit from
increased so that you can be a more valuable understanding the huge range of recent and
member of the commercial property team. imminent changes in commercial property law
and practice.
What are the key stages in commercial
conveyancing, and what are they for? What Our highly experienced commercial property
are searches and enquiries and which should expert, Natasha Dunn or Sarah Thompson-
I be undertaking? Why are the lease terms Copsey, will take you through a detailed analysis
so important? This course will give you a of the latest legal developments, considering
comprehensive grounding in the essential law them in light of the important practical
and practice of commercial property, including implications affecting your day-to-day practice. To
landlord and tenant – covering all these issues make sure the course is as up-to-date as possible
and more. when you participate, it is subject to change from
time to time to reflect the very latest important
• An outline of basic conveyancing procedures
developments in commercial property.
• Sale and purchase of commercial property
• Planning and other statutory requirements
• Business leases
• Negotiating a commercial lease: main points to
watch out for
• The code of practice for commercial leases
• Statutory protection for business tenants;
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
• Stamp Duty Land Tax
London 24 Apr London 28 Feb, 25 Jun
Southampton 28 Mar
Bristol 9 May
Leeds 9 May
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HOT TOPIC
Property Law: An Property Law: An
Introduction for Local Advanced Course for
Authority Lawyers NEW Local Authority Lawyers
3 Foundation 3 Intermediate
Ian Quayle Ian Quayle
As a local authority lawyer, you will come across As an experienced local authority property
particular issues when involved in local authority lawyer, it is vital to keep up-to-date with the very
work, both in residential and commercial latest legal and practical developments affecting
property. At various stages, you will find that local authority property.
you’ll be required to advise on matters beyond
This advanced course provides you with a
your usual sphere of experience and expertise.
robust overview and update of the property
If you are a local authority solicitor but not very issues affecting the management of local
experienced in this sector, you will find this authority property.
course particularly beneficial – introducing you
What are the current procedural issues relating
to the key issues you are likely to encounter when
to assets of community value? How should
involved in property work. If you are returning to
you approach property joint ventures? What
work as local authority lawyer after a career break,
management issues do you particularly need to
this will prove an invaluable refresher course on
be aware of?
the key issues you may face today.
Our experienced property expert, Ian Quayle, will
This course will cover a number of important
take you through the key issues involved in local
issues, including:
authority property and practice, including the
• Imposing covenants on disposal of property latest case law.
• Granting and reserving easements
This advanced course will guide you through the
• Property joint ventures
specific issues and challenges for experienced
• Selling local authority assets
local authority property lawyers, including:
• Buying land and property: transactional issues
• Assets of community value • Assets of community value: legal and
• Managing occupational leases procedural issues
• Borrowing money and investing in property • Property joint ventures: key issues for
• Exploring relevant case law including the local authorities
latest rulings • Green belt policies: dealing with green belt and
planning issues
This course is also available online as a web
• Town and village greens and allotments
course. To find out more visit www.clt.co.uk/
• Management issues for residential leases,
webcourses.
commercial leases and mixed-use schemes
London 7 Mar am London 7 Mar pm
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10 Tricky Commercial
Property Problems
Central Law
6 Intermediate
Training
Hannah Mackinlay
Webinars
Commercial property practitioners will see the
same tricky issues crop up regularly. A key skill for
commercial property lawyers is how to prevent
some of these issues from arising in the first place,
Central Law Training
and how to approach problems when they do arise. webinars provide bite-
Topics covered include:
sized learning delivered
by industry experts.
1. SDLT and leases
2. Dealing with CPSE enquiries • Over 200 webinars
3. Break notices
produced each year
4. Capital allowances
5. Landlord’s consent to dealings • Cover the latest hot
6. Energy performance topics, updates and
7. Rights to light developments in law
8. Statutory fire and asbestos duties
9. Title indemnity insurance
and practice
10. Planning • Can be accessed at
a time and location
convenient for you
• The perfect way to
expand expertise at
your desk
The course was very informative and • Prices from £35
interesting. Hannah always delivers the
information in a very clear and helpful way
London 9 Apr
For more information visit
www.clt.co.uk/
webinars
CLTA10819
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Effective Reporting Land Registration: Key
on Title NEW Issues in Commercial
Property NEW
6 Intermediate
3 Intermediate
Ian Quayle
Ian Quayle
This is an intermediate level course aimed at
transactional residential and commercial property
This is an intermediate level course aimed at
lawyers. The course uses case studies and case law
transactional commercial property lawyers. The
and deals with the following issues:
course deals with the following issues:
The client
• Land registration and commercial leases –
• Key questions to ask the client
noting, registration, protection of easements
• Effective reporting – structure, guides, clear
and exempt information
and concise wording, and use of summaries
• Adverse possession of registered and
• The concept of informed consent
unregistered land
Due diligence • Boundaries – physical boundaries, airspace
• The concept of a good and marketable title and subsoil common problems and how to
• How to deal with defects in title – solutions or solve them
title indemnity • Practice Guide 40 – what it means for lease
• Dealing with search results and seller’s replies plans and plans for development
to enquiries • Registration of legal charges
• Tricky issues – plans and boundaries, • Rectification and indemnity
co-ownership, development issues, land • The use of notices and restrictions and how
contamination, roads and sewers, SDLT they can be challenged
• Problems with leasehold transactions • Easements – protection of legal and
prescriptive rights
• Upgrading title
• Local land charges
• The Business Gateway – what is available and
what does the future hold?
• Recent case law relevant to commercial
property transactions
Birmingham 2 May London 3 Apr am
London 15 May Birmingham 9 Apr am
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Property Development Development Land:
Contracts: Advanced Overage and Clawback
Issues
3 Advanced
3 Advanced
Hannah Mackinlay
Hannah Mackinlay
As a property practitioner, understanding the
particular challenges of overage and clawback is
To effectively advise and represent property
an important skill given the volume of litigation
developers, you need a robust grasp of specific
in recent years. This is an advanced course
contractual topics, including options, conditional
providing a robust overview of overage and
contracts and site promotion agreements.
clawback provisions, and how to manage your
This is an essential course if you’re seeking to
clients’ needs and expectations.
consolidate your legal and practical knowledge of
property development contracts. This course will take you through the key
principles of overage and clawback and guide
If you are an experienced solicitor or other
you through the specific challenges.
practitioner dealing with property and land
development, this course is designed with you The topics covered will include:
in mind. Our well known and respected property
• Types of overage situation
expert, Hannah Mackinlay, will take you through
• Methods of securing payment
the vital property development agreements and
• Pros and cons of each method
other documents, so that you can effectively
• Trigger events
advise your clients on the best route to take in
• Duration and disposals of part
any given transaction.
• ‘No disposal’ situations
This course will cover the documentation you need • Changes in control
to be familiar with, including: • Getting the formula right on overage
calculations
• Exclusivity Agreements, Call Options, Put
• Thinking the unthinkable and
Options and Pre-emption Agreements
avoiding avoidance
• Options
• Lender issues – postponement of liens
• Conditional contracts
and priorities
• Land promotion agreements
• SDLT treatment of overage payments
• Liaison with other professionals
• Learning from others’ mistakes – the caselaw
to date
Birmingham 20 Mar am Birmingham 20 Mar pm
London 21 May am London 21 May pm
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Agreements for Lease: Agreements for Lease:
The Basics The Next Step
3 Foundation 3 Intermediate
Hannah Mackinlay Hannah Mackinlay
An agreement for lease is a key contractual This course covers specific issues in agreements
leasehold document ahead of eventual completion for lease in more complicated cases, working
of a new lease. It sets out the terms agreed by the through established precedents and identifying
parties, and great care must be taken to ensure your key problem areas, including:
client’s interests are protected.
• Battle of the definitions – JCT building contract
Whether you are a solicitor or other practitioner definitions and the possibility of conflict
acting for the landlord or tenant, it is vital to between documentation
understand the issues and potential challenges. • ‘Practical completion’ and statements of
completion under the JCT
This course includes:
• ‘The Architect’ vs the employers agent, their
• When you need an agreement for lease powers duties and responsibilities
• Where completion of works by either party, or • ‘Completion’ – which date?
consent by a third party, is a condition • Extensions of time and longstops
• Effect on commencement of the lease term, • Effect on start of rent-free period, the term,
and rent-free periods rent review dates, etc.
• Current standard commercial contract • Right of the contractor to possession of the site
provisions and suggested amendments under the JCT
• Authorised guarantee agreements (AGAs) and • Partial possession and sectional completion
latest developments in this area • Variations and omissions
• Completion date • Dealing with conflicts
• Apportionments of rent, service charge • Measurement of areas
and insurance • Tax & capital allowance aspects
• VAT and capital allowances • LAD & loss and expense claims by contractors
• Insurance and risk issues • Effect on SDLT of early possession and effect of
• Exclusion of security of tenure where there is completion of the lease
an agreement for lease • Defects and repairs
• User restrictions, and anti-competitive
restrictions under the Competition Act 1998
• Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on substantial
performance of agreements for lease
London 10 Apr am London 10 Apr pm
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Certificate in Commercial Leases
6 Foundation
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey
This course will give you a greater understanding of the basic terms in a commercial
lease, as well as particular considerations when drafting a lease of part. Essential
issues you will consider include the need for ancillary documents, such as licences for
alterations and deeds of variation.
This course explains the basic, essential terms in commercial leases, and related
topics including:
• Defining the demise, and why its definition is crucial
• Rights/exceptions: which do you want, and why?
• An introduction to open market rent review and turnover rents
• Guarantors and AGAs: getting them right
• Landlord’s consent on alienation: avoiding the pitfalls
• Security of tenure and contracting-out: Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 framework
• Repair, alterations, what is meant by ‘yielding up’ and practical methods of
resolving disputes
• User and quiet enjoyment
This course is thorough, informative and very easy to grasp. The manner in
which it is delivered serves to make it all the more enjoyable and helpful
London 4 Jun
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HOT TOPIC
Commercial Leases: 2019 Masterclass
6 Masterclass
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey
The commercial property market is undergoing continual change, and as a commercial
property lawyer you will recognise the need to stay up-to-date. This is a perennially
popular course – continually updated to reflect new case law, and legislative and
regulatory change, ensuring you are fully competent in practice.
A vital skill is understanding how recent developments and topical issues such as
Brexit affect the market and your commercial property practice. Whether you are a
solicitor or other practitioner dealing with commercial property, this course takes you
through all the major topical areas of commercial leases.
This course covers the very latest developments affecting commercial leases and the
law, including:
• Review of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
• VAT and leases: an update
• Alienation
• Tenant break options
• Rent default: practical options for today’s market
• Guarantee issues (Topland and AGAs and GAGAs)
• Green issues in leases
£225.00+ VAT Package price
£315.00 + VAT CLT Members/£630.00 + VAT Non-members
London 12 Mar
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HOT TOPIC
Short Term and Tackling Tricky Issues
Undocumented in Commercial Leases
Occupation: A Toolkit
3 Advanced
3 Intermediate Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey
Mark Shelton Commercial leases are a particularly complex
breed, frequently raising many difficult issues
Informal and short-term lets can raise a number for property lawyers. If you are a commercial
of issues. How should you document a short-term property solicitor or other practitioner dealing
or informal let when a lengthy 70-page lease is with commercial leases, and you’re looking to
hardly an attractive or economic option? Will expand your expertise and client base, this course
letter licences protect your client? Will your client focuses on the more complex issues inherent in
be able to enforce lease obligations against an commercial leases.
occupier under a short term let?
This course assumes you already have a good
This course takes you through the available foundational knowledge of basic lease and
options for landlords who want these types of landlord and tenant issues. And if you already
lettings documented at minimal expense. You regularly advise clients on complicated leases, the
will look at the pros and cons of each option from course will prove a useful refresher and update on
both the landlord’s and the tenant’s point of view. the latest law and procedure.
This course covers the major issues raised by This course covers the critical issues that you will
short-term and informal lets, including: undoubtedly come across in practice, including:
• Letter licences and tenancies at will: when they • Tricky issues with guarantees
work and when they don’t • Landlord’s costs: alienation, alterations,
• Existing standard form leases in use legal costs
• Technical issues: the limits of a DIY approach • Assumptions and disregards in open market
• The traps in the contracting-out process rent review, and whether there is an alternative
• Myths about periodic tenancies and • Advising whether to opt for expert or
six-month lets arbitrator determination
• The basis on which lease obligations, such • Insurance
as repair, may be enforced against an • Service charges
informal occupier • Terminal dilapidations: supersession,
• Legal analyses of the basis of occupation assessing damages
• Consideration of whether this is just a landlord
problem, or whether it also raises issues for
the tenant
London 18 Jun pm London 2 May am
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SDLT for Commercial
Property Lawyers Save time
(including Commercial Save money
Leases)
Cybercrime in
3 Advanced
Conveyancing
David Hannah
Inspirational interactive
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a self-assessed e-learning course
tax on taxpayers, not a duty on documents. This
means you need to ask important questions of
your client before you can effectively complete
the SDLT return. This course covers the main Complete flexibility – can be
issues of SDLT, and you will benefit from various accessed any place, any time
worked examples and flowcharts.
Topics covered will include: Developed specifically for
law firms
• The meaning of ‘residential property’, and
when you can assess commercial property Improve skills development
as ‘residential’
• The new rules on linked transactions and
and learning outcomes –
multiple dwellings relief gain real competitive
• Linked transactions and connected parties advantage
in the context of company and commercial
property transactions
Developed in collaboration
• How to prevent further tax claims with leading practitioners
• Consideration affecting fixtures and goodwill
• Substantial performance and and educational experts
development agreements using the latest technology
• Conditional contracts and options
• Sub-sales Enhanced learning
• Overage experience via our new
This course will overlap in some issues with SDLT Learning Management System
Walkthrough and Workshop for Residential Property
Lawyers (see page 26) but will look at the common
issues in more detail as well as the topics
outlined above.
London 26 Mar pm For further information please email
Sheffield 18 Jun pm wendy.harbottle@clt.co.uk
CLTA11442
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Retail Leases: What You Insolvency for Property
Need to Know NEW Lawyers NEW
3 Update 3 Foundation
Peta Dollar and Sarah Thompson-Copsey Stephen Allinson
The nature of retail and the face of the high street This course is tailored specifically for the
are changing – in the age of increasing internet commercial property sector. The emphasis will be
shopping and with the uncertainty of Brexit, on practical solutions and the course will bring you
retailers are looking for flexibility, limitations up to date with the latest case law and practice.
on outgoings and market-led advice; landlords
This course covers:
are looking for certainty of rental stream, good
tenant mix and assurances on guarantees. • Types of corporate insolvency and the
differences: liquidation, receivership,
This half-day course, offering practical tips – and
administration and Company
ways to avoid traps – for both landlords and retail
Voluntary Arrangements.
tenants, is led by two very experienced trainers,
• Powers and duties of the liquidator/
one of whom brings the benefits of property
administrator/receiver – and why appoint at
litigation experience to the lease drafting
all? Where does the mortgagee in possession
experience of the other, and will cover:
concept fit in?
• Guarantors – future proofing post Brexit, can it • Acting for the liquidator/administrator/receiver
be done? Lessons from TCG v Girdlers; on a property sale: what would you expect to
EMI v O&H see about their appointment, and what would
• Keeping anchor tenants in place: the problem you expect in a sale agreement?
with keep-open covenants – do they ever work? • Buying from the liquidator/administrator/
• Turnover rents – drafting for the internet age receiver on a property sale: what to do to
• Inducements, anchor tenants and tenant mix – mitigate the lack of information
where are we following Martin Retail v Crawley? • Company Voluntary Arrangements and
• Fitting-out works, re-instatement – Riverside v NHS landlords: the latest law and practice
• Tenant insolvency and pre-packs – a landlord’s • Insolvency in the context of landlord and
nightmare? Re: SSRL – Game Group tenant: tenant’s rights if landlord insolvent and
• Landlord’s works: practical tips for landlords vice versa; forfeiture, disclaimer and surrender
and tenants: Timothy Taylor v Mayfair – of leases in the context of insolvency
Cocking v Eacott
• Terminal dilapidations – why chain stores may
have the upper hand
London 25 Apr pm London 17 Apr pm
Birmingham 11 Jun pm
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BEST SELLER
Certificate in Commercial Property Litigation
12 Foundation
Mark Shelton
Commercial landlord and tenant law and practice remains a complex area of law,
presenting many legal and practical challenges. As a commercial property litigator, it is
essential you maintain an effective, up-to-date understanding of legislation
and procedure.
In this course, you will be taken through an in-depth review of the Landlord and
Tenant Act 1954. This Act is fundamental to the management of commercial property,
and from it a large proportion of your work is undoubtedly derived. However, as it is a
highly technical piece of legislation, there are many traps for the unwary.
This course will give you a firm grounding in the core areas for commercial property
litigators, starting with the 1954 Act and covering common areas of dispute, including:
• The basic concepts of the 1954 Act: What is a ‘business lease’? Who is the
‘competent landlord’?
• Procedure, and renewal terms
• Tactics and requirements for opposing lease renewal
• Service charges – common causes of dispute, the Code and s 20 consultation in
mixed use developments
• Enforcement of leasehold covenants – the pre-1996 and post-1995 regimes
• Break options – drafting and serving notices, payment of rent and interest,
conditional clauses
• The interpretation of repairing covenants, and the conduct and settlement of
dilapidations claims
• Obtaining landlord’s consents: formalities and pitfalls
• Trespassers – efficient conduct of court procedures, and adding value with practical
measures for eviction and preventing recurrent occupations
• Avoiding inadvertent waiver of the right to forfeit, and a guide through the variety
of relief jurisdictions
London 6 - 7 Mar
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HOT TOPIC BEST SELLER
Dilapidations: Thinking Conveyancing
Tactically and Practically Update 2019
5 Intermediate 5 Update
Mark Shelton David Keighley or Lorraine Richardson
The issue of dilapidations is a constant in Taking a practical approach, this course considers
property practice. In times of boom and bust, the main legal development (together with any
landlords need to maintain the value of their recent case law), then carefully considers points
investments; and tenants need to restrict the for practice and drafting.
impact of claims to ensure the landlord recovers
This course will update you on the major topics in
no more than is properly due. Your role is to
conveyancing, and will typically include:
protect your clients’ interests, whether you
act for the landlord or the tenant, by thinking • Rent charges: are they more dangerous than
tactically and strategically. you thought?
• Identity checks, fraud and conveyancing:
If you are a commercial real estate litigation
where are we now?
practitioner handling dilapidations disputes for
• Solicitors’ liability to the Land Registry;
landlord and/or tenants, this course is designed
Law Commission proposals to reform
for you. You must be able to understand
land registration
and apply the law and procedure relating to
• Leasehold: what’s changing and
dilapidations so that you can achieve the best
lenders’ requirements
possible outcome for your clients.
• The Conveyancing Protocol
This course covers the key topics in dilapidations • Restrictive covenants: recent developments
disputes including: and caselaw
• Easements: recent developments and caselaw
• Enforcing obligations in mid-term of the lease
• Mortgages: breach of trust, fraud,
• The vital role of Schedules of Conditions
misrepresentation and forgery
• Recovering and assessing the ‘loss of rent’
• Service charges: time limits, interim payments,
element in a claim
balancing charges and reasonableness
• The impact of Minimum Energy Efficiency
• Completion problems: notices to complete,
Standards (MEES) on claims
rescission, deposits held to order; late
• Section 18 valuations, and post-valuation events
payments, non-payment of apportionments
• Position of sub-tenants and the implications
• Lenders’ Handbook
• Replacement of mechanical and electrical
• Land Registry: local land charges
installations, equipment and plant
• Miscellaneous practice points
Newcastle 25 Feb
Nottingham 11 Mar
London 13 Mar London 12 Mar, 19 Jun
Southampton 1 Apr
Bristol 3 Apr
Birmingham 14 May
Sheffield 12 Jun
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Residential Property: An Conveyancing: An
Intensive Introduction for Intensive Workshop
Qualified Practitioners for Paralegals and
Support Staff
6 Foundation
6 Foundation
Lorraine Richardson
Lorraine Richardson
This course is intensive but highly practical, with
our enthusiastic and knowledgeable residential
As a conveyancing paralegal or junior staff
property expert, Lorraine Richardson, taking you
member, you may be looking to consolidate your
through the fundamentals of conveyancing.
practical knowledge of the conveyancing process
This course gives you a practical overview of so you can take on more responsibility. If you are
residential conveyancing, and highlights the a more senior member of the conveyancing team,
frequent pitfalls that you are likely to deal you may be looking to safely delegate more of
with, including: your conveyancing work to your support staff.
• An overview of the conveyancing transaction As a conveyancer, drafting the documents is a
• Identifying your client and the source of funds; key skill. In this course, you will also be taken
why it’s your responsibility through how to draft the sale contract, as well as
• Review of searches available in the market looking at a registered title. You will benefit from
• Explanation of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme clear flowcharts of the residential conveyancing
• The Law Society’s National Conveyancing process with explanatory notes, together with a
Protocol and the new forms suite of the completed forms.
• Key risk areas: UK Finance and your duty
This course covers the essential elements of the
to lenders
residential conveyancing process, including:
• Overview of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and
how it differs from stamp duty • Where your work fits in with the
• Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition) conveyancing transaction
• Changes in Land Registry practice – official • The importance of taking client instructions,
copies of the land register replacing and understanding vital preliminary matters
office copies • An overview of the entire
conveyancing transaction
The course is supported by clear flowcharts of the
• The purpose of the main forms you will come
residential conveyancing process.
across in a conveyancing transaction
• Consideration of a registered title
• Drafting a sale contract
• How to respond to search results on a purchase
London 5 Mar Manchester 29 Apr
London 2 May
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Central Law Training
Central Law Training has designed web courses which allow you
complete flexibility in choosing where and when you access training.
These pre-recorded courses cover the same content and learning
outcomes as our face-to-face courses.
Our flexible, accessible Why book?
and convenient web • High-quality training at your desk
courses include: • Simple to use, with intuitive
navigation
• Property Law: An Introduction for • Learn at a time and place to
Local Authority Lawyers suit you
• Covenants: Current Law • No travel costs or time out of the
and Practice office
• Easements: Current Law • Test your understanding with
and Practice knowledge checks
• High Risk and Unusual Clients in • Evidence your learning with a
Conveyancing certificate of completition
• Employment Status: Employee
Worker or Self-Employed
• Unfair Dismissal: A Practical
Overview
• Introduction to GDPR
• Essential Business Development
Skills
To find out more about our web courses, visit:
www.clt.co.uk/webcourses
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HOT TOPIC
SDLT Walkthrough and Land Transaction
Workshop for Residential Tax in Wales
Property Lawyers
3 Intermediate
3 Foundation
Richard Snape
David Hannah
Stamp Duty Land Tax in Wales was replaced by
Land Transaction Tax on 1 April 2018. If you have
As a conveyancer, you will know that Stamp Duty
clients buying Welsh land and property they will
Land Tax (SDLT) on residential property can prove
expect you to know what the relevant tax rules are,
complex, presenting many traps for the unwary.
and how they will be affected.
This course takes you through SDLT and the key
This course is essential if you deal with
problem areas, and issues to consider, including:
conveyancing matters in Wales, particularly if
• What amounts to residential property for SDLT you are based in England and work for clients
purposes, and the questions you should ask purchasing in Wales.
of clients
It is vital that you understand these important
• What the ‘deal’ is, and when transactions might
changes to avoid potential claims when, for
be linked
instance, dealing with cross-border
• The ‘connected parties’ conundrum
property matters.
• What you should do if you suspect the client is
being evasive If you’re looking for an overview of the new land
• Tax planning and better structuring of the deal tax regime in Wales and how it will impact your
• Whether SDLT avoidance schemes are dead; practice, this course is designed for you.
other tax planning possibilities
This course covers the key changes introduced in
• Company purchases of residential dwellings:
Wales in April 2018, and the practical
the additional rate, the 15% higher threshold,
implications, including:
and tax reliefs
• Multiple dwellings relief: when it applies; how • Thresholds and rates in Wales and
to calculate it; and when it might be reclaimed cross-border conveyancing
• The additional rate: single purchases, multiple • Changes to anti-avoidance rules
purchases – and what amounts to a • Changes to contingent consideration
main residence • Changes to tax and rent
• The global reach of SDLT with the higher rate: • Transactions exempt from higher rates
how you can be certain it doesn’t apply • Additional dwellings
• Remembering the annual tax on • Contingent consideration
enveloped dwellings • Linked transactions
• Common problems
London 26 Mar am Chester 30 Apr pm
Sheffield 18 Jun am
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HOT TOPIC
High Risk and Cybercrime and Fraud
Unusual Clients in in Conveyancing NEW
Conveyancing NEW
3 Intermediate
3 Intermediate
Lorraine Richardson
Lorraine Richardson
Conveyancing is increasingly vulnerable to
financial crime. In fact, according to the Solicitors
Residential conveyancing can be challenging at
Regulation Authority, fraud in conveyancing is
the best of times. Factor in a high risk or unusual
the most common cybercrime in the legal sector.
client – and the mix can become toxic! Whether
As a property lawyer, it is vital to be constantly on
you are a solicitor or other practitioner dealing
alert to the latest threats of cybercrime, fraud and
with residential property, a key skill is being able
money laundering.
to identify high risk clients, and what steps you
may need to take. Whatever your level of experience or seniority,
this course is designed to remind and update
Whatever your level of experience in residential
you of the latest financial threats to your practice,
conveyancing, this course highlights the key risk
reflecting the reality that the criminals continually
areas when you have an unusual client, and what
strive to keep one step ahead of the game.
practical steps you should take.
So as a residential conveyancing practitioner, how
Our well known and respected residential
should you react when you have doubts about
property expert, Lorraine Richardson, will take
the source of a new client’s funds? How can you
you through the more unusual, high risk clients,
spot potential fraudulent mortgage applications?
and the situations you may come across. She
Our conveyancing expert, Lorraine Richardson,
will guide you through some of the pitfalls,
will guide you through the key threats you may
suggesting practical steps you can take to
face today and how to spot them – together with
mitigate the risks.
suggested practical steps to head off
This course considers the ‘unusual’, high risk those threats.
client, and the issues raised, including:
This course covers the key threats to
• Source of funds conveyancing practice, including:
• Identification issues
• An outline of the key money laundering threats
• Trusts and co-ownership
• Threats of fraud in conveyancing
• Delegated powers and undue influence
• Defining cybercrime
• Bankruptcy and insolvency
• What steps you can take to mitigate these risks
• Identifying and avoiding conflicts of interest
• Overview of the Law Society’s Practice Note,
This course is also available online as a web ‘Property and Registration Fraud’
course. To find out more visit www.clt.co.uk/ • How to identify the ‘red flag’ files
webcourses. • The latest key case law
London 3 May am London 3 May pm
Bristol 10 Jun am Bristol 10 Jun pm
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Land Registration: Key Conveyancing Searches
Issues in Residential and Enquiries: Best
Property NEW Practice NEW
3 Intermediate 3 Intermediate
Ian Quayle Lorraine Richardson
This is an intermediate level course aimed at As a residential conveyancer, you will know
transactional residential property lawyers. The that there is an ever-growing list of suggested
course deals with the following issues: searches and enquiries to be carried out in a
residential purchase transaction. Knowing how
• Land registration and residential leases
best to approach the huge range of pre-contractual
• Adverse possession of registered and
searches and enquiries can be daunting, particularly
unregistered land
as you seek to protect your clients’ interests
• Boundaries
throughout the transaction.
• Issues with addresses for service, and the use
of addresses for service to avoid identity and What is today’s best practice? How should you even
property fraud. begin to decide which enquiries are appropriate?
• Notices to protect interests in land and the This course is designed to enable you to identify
benefits of the use of agreed and which searches and enquiries to carry out, and
unilateral notice common problems which can arise in the search
• Challenging unilateral notices using the First- results themselves.
tier Tribunal or County Court
Our well known and experienced residential
• Section 77 Land Registration Act 2002
property expert, Lorraine Richardson, will take
• The use of restrictions in modern conveyancing
you through this vital topic, highlighting frequent
• Withdrawal, challenging, disapplying and
problem search results – and how far you can
modifying restriction
reasonably be expected to deal with them.
• Restrictions and leases
• Registration of legal charges and This course covers the essentials of searches and
digital mortgages enquiries, and how to deal with tricky
• Rectification and indemnity areas, including:
• Easements
• An overview of which searches you should
• Upgrading title
carry out
• Local land charges
• Common but tricky search results
• The Business Gateway
• Further enquiries you should raise when you
have received the search results
• Acceptable responses to your enquiries from
the other side
London 3 Apr pm London 4 Mar pm
Birmingham 9 Apr pm Manchester 3 Jun pm
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HOT TOPIC
Dealing with Unregistered Dealing With Residential
Land in Conveyancing Property Problems
3 Intermediate 5 Advanced
Hannah Mackinlay David Keighley
This course takes you through the key steps of If you’re an experienced residential
unregistered land conveyancing and the potential conveyancer, or a lawyer seeking to increase
issues you may come across in specific matters. your understanding of dealing with complex
You will have practical examples and exercises, and problems, this is an advanced course intended to
focused checklists and flowcharts which you can consolidate your practical knowledge to help you
apply to your own practice. resolve these issues swiftly.
The course covers: Our highly regarded residential conveyancing
expert, David Keighley, will guide you through
• Key differences between unregistered and
the key problems that you’re likely to come
registered land
across in practice. You will benefit from practical
• How to draft an epitome of title
guidance on the complex issues which can arise
• How to identify the ‘good’ root of title
on a residential sale or purchase.
• Land Registry requirements on first registration
• Steps you must take if any title plans do not This course covers the key issues and tricky areas
conform to Land Registry requirements in residential conveyancing, including:
• Proving good title if there are missing deeds
• Tricky covenants
• Land charges searches and priority periods
• Risk areas including lenders requirements &
• Ensuring you make the right searches
fraud
• Easements, prescriptive rights, positive and
• Boundary problems
restrictive covenants, and indemnities
• Defective leases
• Legal requirements for executing documents
• Misrepresentation
before August 1990
• Defects in title
• Powers of attorney
• Does Caveat Emptor still apply?
• Joint ownership
• Contract problems
• Trustees and giving good receipt
• Deposit problems
• Deaths
• NHBC cover limitations
• Acknowledgements for production
• SDLT on second properties
• Vacating receipts and discharges of mortgages
• Buy to let issues
• Name changes and supporting documentation
• Undertakings
• The bankruptcy implications behind voluntary
• Apportionments and subsequent liabilities
dispositions and undervalue transactions
• Completion day problems
• Stamp Duty and SDLT
• Land registration problems
• What the registered title will include
London 12 Mar pm London 13 Feb
Birmingham 25 Apr pm Leeds 11 Jun
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