NSW Property Law: Keeping Ahead of the Changes – a recorded lunchtime online conference

Duration: Approximately 2.5 Hours

Hear from the experts at this online conference. You can watch it on your computer or on your portable electronic device from anywhere.

The conference will be based on our highly successful video webinar technology: there'll be a chairperson and presentations.

One registration can be shared by colleagues within the same firm utilising the same login.

THE PROGRAM

Session 1: NSW Conveyancing Law and Procedure: Recent Developments and Reforms

It’s never a dull moment in the world of conveyancing. This wrap-up session examines the key challenges in conveyancing law and procedure over the last 12 months, including:

• E-conveyancing and electronic execution of documents – where are we up to?
• What risks arise over interoperability now that 100% lodgement applies?
• Rule changes to contracting, witnessing and other conveyancing procedures
• Case update, including SPIC Pacific Hydro v Chief Commissioner of State Revenue (NSW) 2021; Alexakis v Wan [2021] NSWSC 367

Session 2: Regulator on the Warpath: Foreign Surcharge Duty and Land Tax

Increased compliance activity by Revenue NSW has shown that foreign surcharges are firmly within the regulator’s sights. This session looks at how to properly detect and advise clients in this troublesome and evolving area, and the potential liability issues that practitioners might face, including:

• Rules of foreign buyers of investment property – an overview
• Who is a foreign buyer and what rules apply for foreign home buyers?
• What about where property bought by bought by a trust?
• Key traps to watch out for
• Getting the due diligence right from the start
• Penalties for failure to disclose someone is a foreign person
• Understanding the audit and compliance process
• When will property lawyers be in the firing line?

Session 3: Retail and Commercial Leasing in NSW: Navigating the Current Landscape

This session provides an up-to-the-minute primer on recent case law developments in retail and commercial leasing and the key lessons they hold for practitioners. Cases that may be covered include:

• Cameli Pty Ltd v Place Management NSW [2020] NSWSC 1132
• NB2 Pty Ltd v P.T. Ltd [2018] NSWCA 10
• Sneakerboy v Georges Properties Pty Limited [2020] NSWSC 996 (No.1)
• Sneakerboy v Georges Properties Pty Limited (No 2) [2020] NSWSC 1141 (No.2)
• Macquarie Publications Pty Ltd v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2021] NSWSC 405
• MIR Holdings P/L Anor v Marina Square Retail P/L [2020] NSWSC 1418