Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Chair
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Misleading and Deceptive Conduct in the Property Context
Examine misrepresentation and misleading and deceptive conduct in the context of real property transactions, to enable you to identify and avoid areas of risk, including:
- The statutory prohibitions on misrepresentation/misleading and deceptive conduct
- Common law/contractual misrepresentation
- Remedies and other consequences
- Defences
- Accessorial liability
- Examples from recent cases
Presented by Nick Christiansen, Partner, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Presenters
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan ChambersKim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Common Law, Protective and Guardianship Law, and in the Probate and Succession List. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised as a Solicitor in commercial and civil litigation law in England and Wales, New South Wales and Queensland. Kim was appointed to the NSW Minister of Fair Trading's Retirement Villages Advisory Council in 2013 and also to the Minister's Expert Committee on Retirement Villages Standard Contract Terms and Disclosure Documents in 2011. Kim was a Member of the inaugural Legal Services Council in 2014 and reappointed from 2017-2020. She is regularly briefed in property law disputes.
Nick Christiansen, Partner, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Nick is Partner in the Commercial Disputes and Corporate Regulatory teams at Sparke Helmore. He is a commercial litigator and regulatory lawyer specialising in commercial and property disputes and consumer regulatory matters. He has a broad commercial litigation practice, including matters in contract, leasing and other real property disputes, equity and trusts, misleading and deceptive conduct, financing and securities disputes and enforcement, and insolvency and corporations law. He acts in property matters for “big 4” banks, private lenders and investment vehicles, government entities, developers, insolvency practitioners, and large-scale lessors and lessees.
