Conveyancing Basics for Legal Support Staff 2020

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Your essential guide to completing conveyancing tasks with confidence

(Original Course Date: June 4, 2021)

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Who should attend: Legal support staff working in a real estate practice; this course may also be of interest to junior lawyers, junior paralegals, and other conveyancing professionals who are new to this practice area

Learning level: Fundamental

The conveyancing process involves so many details that it can be overwhelming to keep track of all the tasks you need to complete. This course will walk you through a residential conveyance and explain to you practice points to ensure that the process goes as smoothly as possible. You will be provided with notes, invaluable checklists, sample forms, and practical demonstrations. A diverse and experienced faculty of lawyers, senior conveyancers, and government representatives will guide you through the process and answer any questions you may have. You will increase confidence and speed in your ability to perform conveyancing tasks.

After taking this course, you will be able to:

have a clear understanding of the conveyancing process and issues that commonly arise
appreciate the legal reasons behind the technical steps involved in a conveyance
handle unusual circumstances that can occur in a conveyance
avoid the most common errors that arise in conveyances

CLEBC would like to thank Stewart Title Guaranty Company for their generous support in sponsoring this event.

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 5.5 hours (this course will contain a minimum of 1 hour pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management). Please note: The CPD hours of the rebroadcast will either meet or exceed the CPD hours of the original live webinar course.

Course Chair
Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

Reduced Pricing To support you during COVID-19, CLEBC is offering reduced pricing for courses.

*Last Kick at the Can 2021*
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Rebroadcast Articled Student	$172.50 $139.50
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CLEBC Program Coordinator
Jessica Hodgins
jhodgins@cle.bc.ca

Course Chair
Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

About the Course Chair
Dick Chan is a partner at Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers where he has practiced since 1996. He was called to the bar in 1992. Dick has been a director of the Hamilton Community Association since 1994. He has been a supervising lawyer with the UBC Law Students Legal Advice Program since 1998 and a volunteer lawyer with the Access Justice Pro Bono Clinic since 2001. Dick has volunteered with CLEBC since 2002 as a course presenter on real estate matters and as a contributing editor for CLEBC's Conveyancing Deskbook.

Faculty
Nicholas Auld — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam
Shannon Brown-John — Deputy Administrator, Land Owner Transparency Registry Services, Land Title and Survey Authority of BC, New Westminster
Barbara K. Buchanan, QC — Practice Advisor, Conduct and Ethics, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Robert F. Halifax — Cobbett & Cotton Law Corporation, Burnaby
Timothy J. Lack — BrighouseLaw LLP, Vancouver
Dustin Meyer — Deputy Registrar, Land Title and Survey Authority of BC, New Westminster
Lisa Niro — Bell Alliance LLP, Vancouver
Lorna Pritchard — Director, PTT Compliance, Ministry of Finance, Property Taxation Branch, Victoria
Colleen Read — Senior Conveyancer, Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

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Welcome and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:05)

Jessica Hodgins — CLEBC, Vancouver

Client ID and Source of Money (9:05 – 9:40)

Barbara K. Buchanan, QC — Practice Advisor, Conduct and Ethics, Law Society of BC, Vancouver

BREAK (9:40 – 9:50)

Land Owner Transparency Act (LOTA) (9:50 – 10:25)

Shannon Brown-John — Deputy Administrator, Land Owner Transparency Registry Services, Land Title and Survey Authority of BC, New Westminster

BREAK (10:25 – 10:35)

Property Transfer Tax (10:35 – 11:10)

Lorna Pritchard — Director, PTT Compliance, Ministry of Finance, Property Taxation Branch, Victoria

BREAK (11:10 – 11:20)

GST (11:20 – 11:55)

Lisa Niro — Bell Alliance LLP, Vancouver

LUNCH BREAK (11:55 – 12:35)

Mortgages (12:35 – 1:10)

Timothy J. Lack — BrighouseLaw LLP, Vancouver
Colleen Read — Senior Conveyancer, Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

BREAK (1:10 – 1:20)

Statement of Adjustments (1:20 – 1:55)

Colleen Read — Senior Conveyancer, Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

BREAK (1:55 – 2:05)

Virtual Signings (2:05 – 2:45)

Nicholas Auld — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

BREAK (2:45 – 2:55)

Top 10 LTSA Defects and Powers of Attorneys (2:55 – 3:35)

Dustin Meyer — Deputy Registrar, Land Title and Survey Authority of BC, New Westminster

BREAK (3:35 – 3:45)

Miscellaneous Topics (3:45 – 4:30)

Robert F. Halifax — Cobbett & Cotton Law Corporation, Burnaby

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