Following a checklist can often help practitioners avoid a claim, especially when doing conveyancing. While conveyancing looks deceptively simple, it actually involves a huge amount of detail that can be easily missed. Using a checklist can guide practitioners through the transaction and help them cover all the issues and avoid a claim.
More on conveyancing
Practice Risk Guides
Claim Free Conveyancing
Conveyancing, Tax, Engagement/retainer management, Professional Responsibility
31 Mar 21
Claim free conveyancing is an LPLC Practice Risk Guide produced to help practitioners identify and avoid the most common mistakes resulting in claims in conveyancing transactions. The guide aims to raise awareness of how and why mistakes occur, and put practitioners in a better position to stay claim free.
Checklists
Sale of land - questions for the vendor
Conveyancing, Resources and information
19 Sep 24
This checklist contains essential questions for the vendor during the sale of land.
Webinars
Building a better section 32 statement
Conveyancing
14 Jul 20
Every year the LPLC sees claims related to inadequate section 32 statements under the Sale of Land Act 1962 (Vic). This is the first in LPLC's Conveyancing Series 2020 webinars presented by LPLC Risk Manager, Phil Nolan.
Latest News & Alerts
News
LPLC Annual Report 2023-2024
31 Oct 24
The LPLC Annual Report for 2023–2024 was tabled in the Victorian Parliament on 31 October 2024.
Alert
Vacant Residential Land Tax—Changes to ‘Holiday Home’ Exemption
Tax
17 May 24
The Victorian Government has introduced the State Tax Amendment Bill 2024 which, amongst other taxation changes, will (if passed) broaden the holiday home exemption to allow shareholders of companies, as well as certain beneficiaries of trusts and relatives of those shareholders and beneficiaries, to satisfy the exemption for a property owned by a company or trust.
Alert
Snapshot of Major Victorian Property Tax Changes effective from 1 January 2024
Conveyancing, Tax, GST, Leases, Building and Construction, Building and Construction
13 Dec 23
The State Taxation Acts and Other Acts Amendment Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 12 December 2023. The new law introduces significant property tax changes in Victoria with effect from 1 January 2024.