Property webinar.
Friday 8 November at 12.30pm.
Ensuring binding contracts and effective completions.
The webinar will cover the following issues:.
– Who signs a contract for the sale of land, and how? What is a “signature”? What is a “contract”? – – Are agents sufficiently authorised to sign?
– Can faxes and PDF pages short-cut the route to effective exchange? What if the contract is altered after signature, or after exchange?
– How do you ensure the exchange is fully effective?
– What is execution, and who should execute? Can a deed be altered after execution, or after delivery? What is the current thinking on valid execution in the light of the Mercury Tax case and subsequently offered opinions?
– Who checks the validity of execution at completion, and does the Code for Completion assist? How do you ensure the completion is fully effective?
Relevant case law covered in the session includes: Ikbal v Sterling Law [2013] EWHC 3291 (Ch); Davisons Solicitors (a firm) v Nationwide Building Society [2012] EWCA Civ 1626; First Post Homes Ltd v Johnson [1996] 13 EG 125; Green (Liquidator of Stealth Construction Ltd) v Ireland [2011] EWHC 1305 (Ch); J.Pereira Fernandes SA v Mehta [2006] 1 WLR 1543; R (on the application of Mercury Tax Group Limited) v HMRC [2008] EWHC 2721 (Admin); Frazer v Brown [2009] EWHC 2692 (Ch).