Commercial Property Update (6 hours)

Supported by Countrywide Legal Indemnities

• Advanced/Update/Intermediate
  

This course updates the busy practitioner on a huge range of recent and pending commercial property law and practice changes. All recent cases and legislative changes are reviewed, as are the implications of legal practice and policy changes, and the changing economic climate.

Topics will include:

• Contracts for sale and commercial leases in a downturn – enforcing or terminating sale and purchase agreements; rights of rescission; serving valid completion notices; forfeiting (or returning?) contract deposits; escaping from leases by break or surrender (or frustrating the escape); enforcing guarantees; rescheduling rent payment dates; dealing with tenant insolvency (especially administration and voluntary arrangements and the ability to get rent paid)
• Complying with formalities in property transactions – ensuring a contract is properly signed; executing deeds in the light of the Mercury Tax case and the ‘virtual closing’ protocol; varying contracts; varying leases; the use of side letters in sales and leases; informal leases and the dangers of undocumented possession
• Land Registry developments (early completion policy, identification rules, increase in property fraud, guidance on amending deeds)
• Landlord and tenant update (including cases on assigning, sub-letting, service charge, insurance and rent review, and recent cases on 1954 Act contracting-out and a review of the problems the process creates)
• Climate change – drafting points relating to the Carbon Reduction Commitment and the move towards greener leases; transactional implications of rules relating to EPCs; the need for DECs
• Recent legislation – including changes to the law on perpetuities; Community Infrastructure Levy; SDLT and VAT developments
• Developing land – cases and practice points relating to the acquisition of land conditionally upon planning; the enforcement of positive obligations; rights of way and rights for services; enforcing restrictive covenants; drafting overage clauses, and the problem of the village green
  

Course content is regularly revised and updated to ensure that all current developments are covered.

Course Dates

21/06/2012 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
27/06/2012 York	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
28/06/2012 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
30/08/2012 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
07/09/2012 Derby	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
10/09/2012 Leicester	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
21/09/2012 Worcester	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
01/10/2012 Southampton	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
04/10/2012 Birmingham	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
11/10/2012 Bristol	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
16/10/2012 Manchester	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
17/10/2012 Leeds	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
18/10/2012 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
18/10/2012 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
31/10/2012 Salisbury	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
06/12/2012 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information

This course will be presented by the following speakers, please click on the Speaker & Venue details against any course date to see more information.

Alan Riley 
is a solicitor and Property Law Consultant, formerly with Halliwells LLP and the College of Law, Chester, and now providing professional support to law firms. He is a co-writer and the publisher of ‘Commercial Property Information Update’ (a subscription e-zine for property lawyers) and has co-written ‘Commercial Property and Business Leases’ (Jordans).

Peter Reekie 
is Property Training Consultant with Penningtons. He is also Visiting Professor at The College of Law. He is Consultant Materials Editor for the College of Law’s Structured Commercial Property Programme and Consultant Editor of The Conveyancing Handbook.

Natasha Dunn 
is an Associate Professor of Real Estate in the Professional Development Division at the College of Law. She qualified in the City and then spent a further 10 years in practice specialising in commercial real estate. She regularly contributes to various journals and websites on a wide range of commercial real estate topics and is a very experienced practitioner, author and speaker.