Responding to Climate Risk: Property Law Challenges in Disclosure, Insurance and Development

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Description

Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories 

Chair:

Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst; Recommended Leasing Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2024

1.00pm to 2.00pm Responding to Climate Risk: Property Law Challenges in Disclosure, Insurance and Development

 

With more than four decades at the forefront of property and strata law, Ian McKnight draws on his extensive experience advising owners corporations, developers, regulators and property professionals to explore the growing challenges that climate risk poses for disclosure, insurance and development approvals. Gain the benefit of his hands-on knowledge to navigate this evolving area with confidence and ensure your clients are prepared for the legal risks ahead.

Presented by Ian McKnight, Special Counsel, Pobi Lawyers

Presenters

Ian McKnight, Special Counsel, Pobi Lawyers
Ian McKnight is a Practice Group leader and widely regarded as a doyen of strata law in New South Wales. His standing has been earned over the course of a 43 year career bestriding property law and strata management. Unique amongst property lawyers, Ian is a genuine specialist. Strata and community title law is not a part time pursuit, it forms the core of his day-to-day legal practice. He brings firsthand experience of the strata challenges to his advice from his time as a director of a corporate strata management firm. A sought after keynote speaker, Ian provides regular education sessions to the Real Estate Institute of Australia and on occasion to Strata Community Australia. He publishes widely on the subject of strata law. Ian counts among his clients strata managing agents, owners corporations, developers, building managers, property professionals, real estate investors and regulators.

Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst
Richard Brooks is a consultant in Ashurst's real estate practice. Richard has a broad real estate practice, including acting for REITs and other institutional property owners, developers and corporate and government real estate occupiers, and acting on real estate aspects of financing, M&A, infrastructure and energy and resources projects. Richard is experienced in acting on commercial property leasing (for landlords and tenants), sale and lease backs, real estate investment and real estate development. Richard is listed in Best Lawyers Australia 2025 in Real Property Law, Leasing Law and Government Practice.




This seminar is part of a series

Property Transactions Guide in Victoria: Risky Ready Lunch Series

Be risk ready for your property transactions. Property lawyers are facing an increasingly complex landscape, with climate risk obligations redesigning disclosure, insurance and development approvals, owners corporation disputes escalating, and growing pressure from tax and GST changes. This focused lunchtime series, CREATED for busy practitioners, explores the most pressing property law issues shaping Victorian practice and gives you the practical strategies to manage escalating legal and tax risks effectively, provide stronger client advice, and protect your practice against hidden dangers.

Description

Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law

 

If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.

 

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Wednesday, 08 October 2025
1.00pm to 2.00pm Australia/Sydney
CPD Points 1
$160.00
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