Thursday, 26 March 2026
Contract Clauses, Caveats and Red Flags: Getting the Conveyancing Contract Right in 2026
- Draft and review special conditions carefully for off-the-plan sales, builder insolvencies and delayed settlements, aligning with recent VCAT and Supreme Court decisions
- Manage early deposit releases under s 27 Sale of Land Act and ensure vendor disclosure complies with the 2023 Regulations
- Avoid liability traps in allocating GST, adjustments and FIRB conditions within contracts
- Identify and prevent invalid caveats: understanding current case law on caveatable interests and misuse penalties
- Detect transactional red flags: nominee purchasers, SMSF or trust buyers, inflated valuations, and rapid resales
- Integrate digital verification, CIPT and vacant land tax changes into contract clauses and due diligence processes for 2026
Presented by Rochelle Castro, Principal Lawyer, RC & Co Lawyers
Chair
Kelly Young, Licensed Conveyancer, Director, Estate Conveyancing
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
*This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Rochelle Castro, Principal Lawyer, RC & Co Lawyers
Rochelle Castro is a strata, construction and conveyancing lawyer and owner of RC & Co Lawyers. Prior to practicing law, she was a university instructor before dedicating her service to law. Whilst working to further improve her legal skills, Rochelle saw that she could better serve her clients by not only advising and advocating for them, but also educating them. She works with her team at RC & Co Lawyers, through constant rigorous training, so that they could provide effective, resourceful and clear legal service to clients. Rochelle appears in tribunals and various court jurisdictions to advocate her clients’ rights. She presents papers on strata, construction and conveyancing in local and international forums. Rochelle is a committee member of a few organisations including Law Institute of Victoria Building and Construction committee and Property Law committee. She is also the current president of the diverse association Filipino Australia Lawyers Association. Rochelle is also active in social media to provide bite size tips to those who are in need of guidance about contract law and legal disputes. Rochelle believes that good practice of law requires effective communication and education to achieve for clients the best result.
Kelly Young, Licensed Conveyancer, Director, Estate Conveyancing
Kelly Young is a fully unrestricted Conveyancing Licence holder and director of Estate Conveyancing, located in Macleod. Kelly and her staff at Estate Conveyancing prides themselves and providing education to clients and referrers alike. Kelly has been working in the legal industry for 20 years with experience in the property fields of settlements & conveyancing in Victoria and Western Australia and residential and commercial lending. Starting out as a junior paralegal in stamping, registration, and settlements, moving onto residential mortgages, Conveyancing and also Commercial Lending, Kelly has a background working in accountant firms, law firms and conveyancing offices in Melbourne city, rural areas of Victoria and is also qualified within Settlements in the state of WA.
