COURSE CATEGORY
Professional skills
Preparing caveats, lapsing notice process and priority notices
Reviewed on 12 November 2025
Caveats, lapsing notices, and priority notices are critical in protecting interests and managing property transactions. These tools ensure rights are safeguarded and processes are followed correctly, from accurately specifying land to addressing lapsing timelines and resolving priority disputes. Understanding their application is essential for effectively navigating property law.
In this course, Greg Stilianou will take you through:
- An introduction to caveats
- Defining land and specifying interests
- Physical land and survey plans in caveats
- Nature of the estate or interest claimed
- Addressing exempt transactions
- Evidence of service and compliance
- Finalising the lapsing process
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit
TARGET AUDIENCE
All practitioners
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Video-based interactive module
Course Author: Greg Stilianou
Since his admission to practice as a legal practitioner on 26 August 2005, Greg has exclusively worked with the law relating to land and property. He has worked in private practice, Government and in-house corporate roles, and in February 2019 he decided to open his own practice, GS Legal.
Greg practiced as a senior lawyer for the Registrar-General at Land and Property Information for over ten years, and as a senior lawyer with NSW Land Registry Services when it took over the land titling and registry functions of the Registrar-General.
Greg has acquired twelve years of specialist knowledge and experience in land law, and is the author of “Land Titling Law and Practice in NSW”, a text book published by Thomson Reuters which features on many university text book lists as required reading, including the Property Law specialist accreditation program with the Law Society of NSW.
For the last six years Greg has been the contributing author of the “Land Titles Office Practice” Thomson Reuters’ subscription service, and from 2021 will be the contributing author for the “Conveyancing Manual NSW”, Thomson Reuters’ online subscription service. Greg continues his passion for educating and teaching the legal profession as a lecturer at The College of Law (practical legal training and the applied law programs).
