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.
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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 Jul 21
This checklist contains sixty-one 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
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.
News
PI Insurance renewals open
05 Apr 24
The LPLC Professional Indemnity (PI) Insurance portal is open for processing renewals for the 2024–25 year for private law practices.
News
Holiday Season hours and new office location
21 Dec 23
Our office will be closed from 5pm on Thursday 21 December 2023 and will re-open at 9am on Monday 8 January 2024.
LPLC’s office will relocate to new premises at Level 19, 140 William Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 from Monday 15 January 2024. Phone and email contact details remain unchanged.