Newcastle upon Tyne Law Society Seminar

Navigating the Risk: What Conveyancers Need to Know About SDLT

Date:     Thursday 25^th of September 2025

Time:     4.00pm – 6.15pm

Venue:   Ward Hadaway, Sandgate House, 102 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DX

Cost:      Free

This complimentary seminar will be highly beneficial for anyone in the residential conveyancing team, commercial property team, private client who find themselves inadvertently giving tax advice within their transactions, when they are not insured to do so. 

 Programme

4.00pm – arrival, light refreshments served

4.15pm – welcome by Lesley Fairclough, Head of the Commercial Property Team at Ward Hadaway and Vice President of Newcastle upon Tyne Law Society

4.20pm – Russell Hewitson, Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria University and Law Society Council Member for Commercial Property.

4.50pm – Amanda Perrotton, Legal Partner, Bell Howley Perrotton LLP

5.50pm – Q&A

6.00pm – Speaker to be confirmed

6.15pm – Close

Key note speakers:-

Key Law Society Property Updates

In this session, Russell Hewitson will give you an opportunity to hear about the work the Law Society has been doing to support conveyancers. To ensure that the content is both topical and relevant issues to be covered will be determined nearer the time but will include:

• The new practice note on climate change and property
• Building Safety Act 2022: a guide for conveyancers
• The new TA6 form
• Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 – key changes

Navigating the Risk: What Conveyancers Need to Know About SDLT

Amanda Perrotton will deliver an informative presentation on the following key areas:

• Identifying when a fee earner could be giving uninsured or unqualified advice
• Demonstrating the pitfalls and risks of doing so
• Discussing how the SRA deals with Solicitors firms giving tax advice
• Money Laundering Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017
• CQS SDLT policy
• Reviewing departmental policies, procedures and letters of engagement to reduce the risk
• Surcharges on second homes
• CGT exemptions
• Transfers of Equity and Divorce
• Mixed Use and Non-residential Claims
• Case studies

To register for this free event, please email the Society to mail@newcastlelawsociety.co.uk with Property Seminar in the title.