Staying Informed - Law Institute of Victoria

Russell Cocks 01 Feb 2019

Amendments to the Local Government Act mean solicitors acting for buyers and sellers of real estate will need to take into account any charges recorded against the property relating to funding for cladding rectification...

Real Property

Land Use Victoria (LUV) Compliance Examinations

Property Law Section 30 Jan 2019

Electronic lodgement of land transactions has reached such a high level that Land Use Victoria has increased its compliance examinations of practitioners who are subscribers to the Electronic Lodgement Network (ELN) ...

Conveyancing Real Property

LIV calls for parties to provide stronger data security and improved environmental laws

LIV Media 23 Nov 2018

The LIV is calling on all parties to commit to fixing the security and operational problems associated with the new electronic conveyancing system and the privatised Land Use Victoria...

Advocacy Environment Environmental Protection Real Property

Be secure when advising lenders

Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee 01 Nov 2018

Making assumptions about your retainer with longstanding lender clients is risky...

Practice & Procedure Real Property

Scary short-stays

Russell Cocks 01 Nov 2018

From 1 February 2019 the Owners Corporation Act will proscribe certain behaviour in the short-stay environment and establish a process whereby complaints relating to breaches of those behaviour standards will be dealt with...

Real Property

Lost trust deeds

Russell Cocks 01 Oct 2018

Many properties are held in the name of trustees. Not having access to the original trust deeds can present problems...

Real Property

De-regulated contract of sale of land

Russell Cocks 03 Sep 2018

What are the consequences of the sunsetting of the regulations prescribing the standard contract of sale of land...

Conveyancing Practice & Procedure Real Property

GST withholding at settlement

David P Lloyd and Murray McCutcheon 01 Aug 2018

Following on from a March 2018 LIJ article, the authors explain how GST withholding works in practice with the new contract condition...

Real Property Taxation

Co-ownership disputes

Philip Barton 01 Aug 2018

Cases since the 2005 reforms to the law of co-ownership have helped to clarify central concepts...

Dispute Resolution Real Property

Highway robbery? Adverse possession of roads

Robert Bradley 01 Aug 2018

While there has been some light shed on the law relating to public highways, it is still unclear when a road can be adversely possessed...

Real Property

No longer a victim

Norman Mermelstein 01 Aug 2018

When a tenant is liable for the landlord’s legal fees, the tenant often feels exposed to excessive and/ or unjust costs with little remedy. Relief is available...

Real Property

The sky is not only the limit, it’s the solution

Nafsika Palbas 01 Aug 2018

Air rights transactions are an emerging area of property law in Victoria, and overlap and interact with other well-established property law concepts commonly used by practitioners...

Real Property

Defects and demands

Harrison Wall 01 Aug 2018

A contractor seeking an injunction to restrain a principal from having recourse to security under a building contract has a difficult hurdle to overcome where the right to recourse is unconditional...

Real Property Securities

Sheriff held up

Russell Cocks 01 Aug 2018

The sheriff for the state of Victoria performs an important function within the court system, providing an ultimate enforcement procedure for judgments obtained in the courts...

Real Property