Event Information

Start Time

9:00 AM

End Time

4:30 PM

DELIVERY

Online

CPD Hours

There will be CPD hours awarded to attendees. Please check directly with your association or awarding body to see how many points they will award.

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About this Conference

Last year’s conference covered the wider legal and regulatory changes affecting conveyancing planning and environmental developments, registration challenges, and the broader public law issues that can impact transactions. This year is a strong follow-on because it takes those themes and focuses on what people are dealing with on files right now: keeping transactions moving, avoiding repeat queries and rework, and getting to completion with a clear, defensible file.

The 2026 programme is more completion-focused and practical. It covers the main pressure points shaping conveyancing day to day, including title deed release timelines, the 8-week completion expectation, the move towards Statements of Truth, and the file controls that help reduce requisitions and delay. It also deals with the recurring issues that still stall transactions such as legacy planning gaps, unregistered title, and managed development documentation with approaches that can be applied immediately across both residential and local authority conveyancing.

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Agenda

Conference Chairperson & Opening Remarks

Brendan Barrett, Communications Consultant

Combined Building Agreement/Contract for Sale 2026

Speaker: Joseph Thomas, Partner, O'Reilly Thomas LLP

Introduction to and overview of the new Combined Building Agreement/Contract for Sale 2026.
Review of the important changes to the documentation used in sale/purchase of new build houses and apartments
Review of changes from the Vendor/Builder’s perspective, in particular the significant changes if purchaser fails to complete
Review of changes from purchaser's perspective

Unregistered Title and First Registration: Reducing Time to Registration

Speaker: Sinéad Gilmore, Conveyancing Consultant, A&L Goodbody LLP

Root of title proof pack: minimum content
Identity, possession evidence and consistency
Burdens, rights clarification and drafting
Mapping that supports the title narrative
Application structure designed to reduce requisitions

Managed Developments: Common Areas, Service Charges and Transactional Risk

Speaker: Neil Dunne, Partner, Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Scheme set up and transaction documents required
Management company information pack: minimum requirements
Service charge and sinking fund due diligence
Insurance, planned works and building compliance checks
Contract conditions and requisitions to secure adequate disclosure

Title deeds in 2026: 10 Working Days and Transaction Sequencing

Valid deeds request required elements and authority
Accountable Trust Receipt: correct use and limits
Deeds tracking and escalation protocol
Workstreams that can progress pre-deeds
Managing switcher, sale timelines around lender dependencies

The 8-Week Target: Operational Controls to Reduce Delay

Seller readiness requirements at instruction stage
Critical path identification for each file
Requisitions discipline prioritising completion
Loan pack and deeds sequencing
Standard communications to manage agent, client expectations

Seller Documentation and Early Issue: Setting the File up for Completion

Minimum “issue-ready” documentation standard
Map, boundary alignment checks at outset
Planning documentation: baseline requirements
Standardised replies pack structure
Local authority files: approvals and internal sign-off staged early

Planning Legacy Gaps: Defensible Due Diligence and Risk Position

Planning review scope and rationale (including lookback approach)
Missing, limited records: documented risk methodology
Triggers for retention, regularisation
Special conditions that are enforceable and effective
Local authority conveyancing: presenting the planning position clearly

Registration Quality Control: Reducing Requisitions Through Better Inputs

Pre-submission QC checklist for common failure points
Mapping standards and referral triggers
Execution formalities and witness errors
Supporting documentation: “must include” set
Requisitions responses: format, indexing and turnaround discipline

Who Should Attend?

This conference is aimed at Conveyancing Solicitors, Property Solicitors, and Commercial Property Solicitors with transactional files, as well as Legal Executives, Conveyancing Executives, Conveyancing Managers, Team Leads, Property Paralegals, and title, registration specialists handling applications and requisitions. It is also relevant for local authority and public body legal teams, including Local Authority Solicitors, in-house Property, Estates Counsel, Housing acquisitions, disposals legal teams, and property asset, estate management teams who support acquisitions, disposals, new-build delivery and managed development transactions.

Speakers

Brendan Barrett

Chairperson

Joseph Thomas

Partner, O'Reilly Thomas LLP

Sinéad Gilmore

Conveyancing Consultant, A&L Goodbody LLP

Neil Dunne

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Price

SAVE 100.00 EURO BY BOOKING THE EARLY BIRD RATE OF €475 + VAT per Person – Normal Rate @ €575 + VAT.

Please note the early bird discount can close sooner than expected once a certain number of places fill up, therefore your prompt booking is strongly advised to avoid disappointment.

CMG Events Conference Discount

10% discount for the third delegate booked or subsequent bookings thereafter from the same company.

Conveyancing Conference 2026