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  • Key Highlights Oct 2024
    Videos

    Bitesize Highlights - Automation, transformation and digitisation of AML processes (On demand - audio-only)

    2024-11-25T13:25:00Z

    Listen to the key highlights from the Leadership and Management Section, Risk and Compliance Section and Property Section seminar that was held in October 2024.  

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    News

    AI and smart buildings report

    2024-11-12T10:18:00Z

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    Feature

    Playing it safe

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The recent Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 amends the Building Safety Act to allow for further rights of recourse. Charis Beverton and Sarah Grant outline the key changes

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    Pipped at the post

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Priscilla Sinder looks at how strong post-completion processes can help property practitioners meet their obligations and avoid costly mistakes

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    Feature

    Lip service

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Phil Parkinson and Aisling McWilliams look at the issues surrounding service charges under the new legislation, and highlight the need for further clarity in an essential secondary legislative framework

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    Shine a light

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The law around ‘rights of light’ is complex. Matthew Weal, Shanna Davison and Hugh Le Gear consider the issues in light of the new government’s plans

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    What next for leasehold?

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 introduces fundamental changes to extend further rights to leaseholders of residential property. Katie Cohen looks at the current act and outlines what the new government is likely to change

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    A knotty issue

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Claudia Oliver and Jack Lightburn outline the practical matters parties should consider when dealing with Japanese knotweed

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    Opinion

    Making a fresh start

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Clare Harman Clark, the Property Section chair, wonders what the new term will bring

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    Feature

    Register change

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    After talking to customers, HM Land Registry is simplifying the process for updating addresses for service and applying for first registrations. Alister Heywood explains the changes

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    Feature

    Swept away

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Tom Knightley considers a recent case disputing sweeper clauses within the service charge provisions of leases

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    Feature

    Streets ahead

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    A raft of housing, planning and property reforms featured prominently in the King’s speech, but how will they affect property professionals? Lucy Trevelyan reports

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    Plan of action

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Following the general election in July this year, the new government signalled an overhaul of the planning regime in England and Wales. Amy Penrose looks at the proposed changes

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    Held to account

    2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Since the Building Safety Act 2022 came into force there has only been one decision published by the First-tier Tribunal concerning the principal accountable persons regime. Hannah Keane looks at the detail

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    Analysis

    Using AI in property transactions

    2024-09-03T11:24:00Z

    Anna Prozherina looks at the capabilities of artifical intelligence in property transactions and how it it likely to be used in the sector

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    Why identity checks won’t make you AML compliant

    2024-06-28T14:14:00Z Partner content

    Richard Simms, from our partner AMLCC, outlines how property practioners must do more than identity checks to protect themselves from money laundering risks

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    Under scrutiny

    2024-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Tracey Calvert is director of Oakhalls Consultancy and the author of the forthcoming book, In-house Lawyers’ Risk and Compliance Q&A, published by the Law Society

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    Opinion

    What next for property?

    2024-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Clare Harman Clark, the Property Section chair, reads too much into the current state of play for real estate law

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    Feature

    A matter of trust

    2024-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Following the recent government consultation on transparency of land ownership involving trusts, private client lawyers share their views on the implications of the changes for advising clients