Training

Bespoke Land Registry training for conveyancers

Land Registration Training Support provides targeted training to Conveyancers on a wide
range of topics specific to Land Registration Law and Practice.

Our modules are designed to fill the gaps in knowledge that other legal training programmes
leave behind. We address the key areas that prove troublesome to Conveyancers, providing
them with the tools they need to improve both the quality and efficiency of their work.

More information on the modules can be found by expanding each of the sections below.

Restrictions
  • The purpose of restrictions
  • Compliance
  • Understanding the Form A (sole proprietor) restriction
  • Understanding Overreaching
  • The ST5 and removal of the Form A
  • When the Form B restriction is appropriate
  • Restrictions and Declarations of Trust
  • Specific situations/misunderstandings
  • Cancellation and Withdrawal
Notices
  • Agreed Notices
  • Unilateral Notices
  • Why 3rd Party interests require protection
  • What can and cannot be protected by notice
  • Compliance
  • Removal of Notices
Trusts and Co-ownership
  • Understanding the legal estate
  • Understanding the beneficial estate
  • The beneficial joint tenancy
  • The tenancy in common
  • Severance of the beneficial joint tenancy
  • The effect of the Form A restriction
  • Overreaching/appointment of an additional trustee
  • Declarations of Trust
  • When the Form B restriction is appropriate
Devolution of Title (on the death of a co-owner)
  • Devolution of legal title
  • Devolution of beneficial (equitable) title
  • How beneficial title devolves differently comparing a beneficial joint tenancy to a tenancy in common
  • Probate/Letters of Administration
  • When Executors and Personal Representatives can act
  • Dispositions by a sole surviving proprietor
  • When the last remaining proprietor dies
  • Practical exercises
Adverse Possession
  • The Limitation Act 1980
  • What constitutes adverse possession?
  • Adverse Possession of unregistered land
  • The essential requirements for an application
  • The ST1
  • Adverse Possession of registered land
  • The ADV1
  • Surveys/ LR procedures
  • Leasehold matters
Leases
  • The essentials of a Lease
  • Understanding tiers of Leases
  • The difference between Good and Absolute Leasehold
  • Extension of term
  • Deeds of Variation and how they affect the leasehold estate differently
  • Surrender/Extinguishment
  • Accretion
  • Upgrading from good to absolute leasehold
Powers of Attorney
  • General powers
  • Lasting powers
  • Other types of power
  • Foreign powers
  • Joint attorneys of a sole (surviving) proprietor when there is a Form A restriction on the register
  • Joint proprietors: receipts for capital money
  • Joint proprietors: evidence that the donor had a beneficial interest
  • Death of a co-owner/when attorneys can act
Merger and Amalgamation
  • The difference between merger and amalgamation
  • Merger of an unregistered lease
  • Merger of a registered lease
  • Merger of lease into a registered or unregistered reversionary estate
  • Beneficial easements affecting the lease being determined
  • Amalgamation of titles
  • Title plans and register entries
Understanding Title/Upgrades
  • Absolute Freehold
  • Good Leasehold
  • Absolute Leasehold
  • Upgrading Good Leasehold to Absolute Leasehold
  • Possessory Freehold
  • Upgrading Possessory Freehold to Absolute Freehold
  • Upgrading Possessory Leasehold to Good Leasehold

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