Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Navigating Caveats Under Time Pressure
Caveat litigation is fast paced and critical decisions need to be made under time pressure. Consider a number of common scenarios that you can expect to encounter and gain a roadmap to adopt in future matters. The issues that will be covered include:
- The process for removal of a caveat
- Application for withdrawal or issuing a lapsing notice?
- Identifying whether there is a caveatable interest
- How should one approach the balance of convenience?
- Who bears the onus of proof?
- Drafting relief/orders
- What evidence is usually required on such applications
- Is short service required?
- Compensation under s 74P: What is recoverable?
- Leave under s 74O
- Electronic lodgement of caveats and the subscriber’s professional obligations
Presented by Vikram N Misra, Barrister, Clarence Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Judy Bliss, Principal Licensed Conveyancer, Bliss Conveyancing
Presenters
Judy Bliss, Principal Licensed Conveyancer, Bliss ConveyancingJudy Bliss has been in the industry since 1984. She started Bliss Conveyancing when she saw the need for a conveyancing service that spoke plain English, not legal jargon. Her mission is to help people buy property with peace of mind for the future. Her professional experience is extensive, beginning in 1984 as Personal Assistant to the Chief Magistrate of NSW, then clerking at the Nowra Local Court and the Milton Local Court. She has been a Coroner, Registrar and Marriage Celebrant. Over 10 years ago, she earned her conveyancing license and entered legal private practice so that she could use her extensive legal experience to help people buy property. Judy is a current NSW State Representative in the Pexa Advisory Board.
Vikram N Misra, Barrister, Clarence Chambers
Vikram Misra was admitted as a solicitor in 2012 and called to the NSW Bar in 2015. He maintains a broad commercial practice and is regularly briefed in matters relating to property law and construction law. Vikram has completed a Graduate Diploma in Taxation Law at the University of Sydney in 2015 and a Master of Laws majoring in construction law and contract law at the University of Melbourne in 2016. Vikram is the author of “Security of Payment in the NSW Building & Construction Industry (7th Ed)” (Thomson Reuters). He is also the sole contributing author to “Jacobs, Commercial Damages” (Thomson Reuters) and “Jacobs, McCarthy & Neggo, Injunctions: Law and Practice” (Thomson Reuters). Vikram is also a contributing author to Commercial Arbitration Law and Practice (Thomson Reuters) in the following sections: Domestic Arbitration, International Arbitration, Security of Payment (NSW) and Security of Payment (SA). Vikram is currently a casual academic at Western Sydney University in the subject "Building Law".
