COURSE CATEGORY
Substantive law
The law of covenants and obsolete easements
Western Australia Customers
Please note this course has not been updated in the last twelve months and does not satisfy the requirements for CPD in WA.
Reviewed February 02, 2021
In this course, Greg Stilianou addresses a fundamental and tricky aspect of practicing in property law – dealing with unused easements and old covenants that are registered on land title.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Learn how to clear a land title of abandoned easements and obsolete covenants in order to provide your client with an unencumbered title and pave the way for sale or development.
- Learn how to contest an abandoned easement application
- What the process is for a benefited landowner who receives a notification; and
- Learn about new covenants that cannot practically operate
TARGET AUDIENCE
Lawyers in general practice, property lawyers
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Video-based interactive module
Course Author: Greg Stilianou
Principal, Greg Stilianou Legal
Greg was a senior lawyer for the Registrar-General at Land and Property Information for over ten years. He continued 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. Greg strives to give accurate and technical legal advice that is practical and useful for legal practitioners. There isn’t a land dealing or plan that Greg hasn’t encountered, and since 2019, Greg has established his own practice, Greg Stilianou Legal, where he focuses on delivering his insights into the requirements for achieving registration in the land Register to private clients and, on a consultancy basis, to other legal practitioners, conveyancers and surveyors.
Greg has been the contributing author of this LTOP service since April 2016, and he 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).
