Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* 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
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common breaches in property sale contracts and the legal grounds for termination
- Apply practical strategies to manage and resolve contract disputes in conveyancing
Chair
Stephanie Aquilina-Little, Senior Associate, Jackson Russell
Breach and Termination of Contract Sales
Gain insights into identifying breaches, understanding legal remedies, and navigating the termination process. Leave with practical tools to effectively manage contract disputes in your conveyancing undertakings.
Presented by Mary Crimp, Partner, Harmans Lawyers
Presenters
Stephanie Aquilina-Little, Senior Associate, Jackson Russell
Stephanie is the senior associate in Jackson Russell’s property team. She has experience in providing end-to-end solutions for a wide range of property matters helping clients navigate the complex legal landscape of property transactions. Stephanie has experience acting for vendors and purchasers in the sale and purchase of residential and commercial properties - including extensive due diligence reporting; acting for landlords and tenants in leasing transactions and disputes; easement issues; subdivisions and property development projects; boundary adjustments; financing and refinancing; drafting and advising on wills and enduring powers of attorney and acting on unit title matters for both bodies corporate and unit owners. Stephanie is a member of the Auckland Women Lawyers' Association (and a past treasurer), the Auckland District Law Society, the Women in Property division of the Property Council NZ, and the Property Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society, she is also a past member of the board of trustees for St Ignatius Catholic School. Stephanie speaks fluent french, having lived and worked in France with her family for several years.
Mary Crimp, Partner, Harmans Lawyers
Mary jointly leads Harmans’ civil litigation and disputes resolution team. She has been in practice since 2003 and has gained a broad range of experience both in New Zealand and overseas including in a prosecutorial capacity in the areas of tax and financial services. Since returning to New Zealand in 2010, she has specialised in civil and commercial litigation, insolvency and debt recovery, estate litigation, PPPR Act applications and employment disputes. As a result, she has acted for clients in a wide range of forums across those fields, including ADR and litigation in the District Court, High Court and the Court of Appeal. Given Harmans’ large residential conveyancing practise, Mary is familiar with breach and termination issues that may arise. Mary is currently a committee member of a National Standards Committee for the New Zealand Law Society and is regularly instructed by the Court on PPPR matters as Counsel for the Subject Person.
