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Webinar: Advising on Climate Change Risk Assessments – Putting The Law Society Guidance into Practice

Event date: 5 June @1:00pm-2:00pm
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The new Law Society's Climate Change Risk Property Practice Note provides essential and specific guidance for solicitors handling property transactions. But how do you ensure you address and advise clients, whether residential or commercial, on climate change risks proportionately, in practice?

Simon Boyle, Environmental Lawyer with Landmark Information has provided a technical supplementary note, together with Landmark colleagues, around climate risks for the Law Society Practice Note and in this practical webinar will share:

What to consider as a matter of good practice when acting for your client in particular transaction types.

Compliance with professional duties
Ensuring informed advice to clients:

How to understand the climate risk data and assessment results within a search report
What constitutes a ‘Physical’ risk and a ‘Transition risk’
The RCP, timeline, and risk analysis adopted by the climate search
Mitigation of potential risks
How to consider these various factors to advise or warn your client appropriately to potential climate risks. Simon will provide examples of different result scenarios to demonstrate.
Scope of solicitor advice on climate risk at point of terms of engagement and report on title
Guiding how clients can get specialist climate advice.

Profile

Landmark Information Group

Landmark are the UK’s leading provider of environmental data and assessment for property transactions supporting conveyancers and solicitors as well as their clients for over 30 years. Landmark have provided Climate Change Reports since 2023, working with both property solicitors and climate experts to produce the best in data and assessment in a clear and easy to understand format.

Simon Boyle, Environmental Law Director, Landmark Information

Simon has over 25 years’ experience as an environmental lawyer which has included working in local government and for a major manufacturing company. For 12 years he has run an MSc module on Environmental Policy and Law. Simon is the chapter author (Information Sources & Environmental Reports) of Contaminated Land by Stephen Tromans and a chapter author of Wilderness Protection in Europe (2016).

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