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Surcharge traps and discretionary trusts

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Alarm Bells for Solicitors: Elderly Clients

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Contract for Sale: The Cost of a Simple Drafting Error

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Conveyancing Deposits – 5% or 10%?

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Power of Attorney – Reliable or Fallible

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Sale of Land Contract – Prescribed Document Changes

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Traps in Family Law Conveyances

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Usual Practice – Is It Good Enough?

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A Caveat About Caveats

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A Timely Reminder

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Missed Deadlines – Don’t Leave it Until the Last Minute

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Situation Critical – Key Dates

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Surcharge Purchaser Duty

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Making Assumptions

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A Judge’s View of File Notes

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Floods and Bushfires

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Beware the bridging visa

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Intra-Family Transactions

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Caveats and final searches

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A family affair: Conflicts of duties when acting for related parties

Risk on Air episode

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Duty calls: Navigating transfer duty on options

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Changes in Conveyancing

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Duty to warn on bad deals?

Risk on Air episode

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Property Transactions using Powers of Attorney

Risk on Air episode

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Surcharge Traps

Risk on Air episode

Property
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Caveatable interest?

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Transactions involving foreign purchasers

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Advice on the run

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Could the secret to your success as a solicitor lie in asking the right questions?

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Check, check and then check again: Drafting errors resulting in claims against solicitors

Property
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Family feud – Pitfalls of acting for multiple family members

Property
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Keeping up with the changes – NSW government initiatives for property buyers

Property
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Surcharge Purchaser Duty

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PEXA settlements and caveats: Proceed with caution

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Reforms to Foreign Investor Framework – Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets

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Beware the bank of Mum & Dad

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Property transactions and climate advisory risks

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Renovator’s delight, solicitor’s dismay

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What does success look like to you?

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Compare or dispair

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Who are you acting for on PEXA? – Risks and pitfalls

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Making enduring powers of attorney: practical tips

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Transactions involving enduring powers of attorney

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Powers of Attorney – an ‘enduring’ source of liability for solicitors

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Practical tips for conveyancing solicitors in a changing economy

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Land Tax Certificates and termination of contracts for sale of land

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Company directors personally liable for GST

Property
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Purchaser surcharge duty: risk management tips for solicitors

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Preliminary agreements and the risk of litigation

Property
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Penumbral duty no longer ‘an area of obscurity or uncertainty’

Property
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Caveats in PEXA: Buyers (and solicitors) beware

Property
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Protecting yourself from claims – when a file note saves the day

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The limited retainer – carving out property taxes

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Dangers for solicitors acting on intra-family transactions

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Solicitors’ duties to remind clients

Property
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Retainers and the extent of a solicitor’s duty of care

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Solicitors’ duties to advise on the implications of transactions

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The not-so-ordinary meaning of ‘ordinarily resident’

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Insights from Lawcover: avoiding conflict

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