Land Law Refresher For Property Owners, Managers, Developers

26 Jul, 2021, Virtual Classroom Training

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Prof Dato’ Salleh Buang (Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inn), previously served as a Federal Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers in Kuala Lumpur before he left for legal practice, the corporate sector and finally academia. Until 2013 he was a Visiting Professor at UTM Skudai, Johor

 

Author of more than 30 books and monographs, he had conducted over the last three decades seminars and courses over a wide range of topics including land law, property law, construction law, housing development, strata development and international joint ventures. He now writes regularly for his weekly column in the New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia.

 

Resident in Alor Setar Kedah, at present he is the Deputy Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalize War (KLFCW).

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FOCUSING ON
  • Session One – What Is The Torrens System?
  • Session Two – How Does A State Authority Dispose State Land?
  • Session Three – What Is Securty Of Tenure?
  • Session Four – What Land Dealings Are Recognised?
  • Session Five – Land Use Planning & Land Development
  • Session Six – Land Acquisition: Latest Issues
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Property Owners & Developers
  • Property Consultants
  • Property Managers
  • Bankers
  • Insurance Companies
  • Financiers
  • Valuers
  • Land Administration Managers
  • Investment Advisers
  • Development & Planning Managers
  • Town Planners
  • Project Co-ordinators
  • Contractors
  • Contract Managers & Executives
  • Contract Administrators
  • Architects
  • Engineers
  • Quantity Surveyors
  • Construction Managers
  • Legal Advisors
  • Lawyers
  • Project Managers
  • Government Ministries & Departments
  • Local Authorities
  • Media Practitioners
  • Academicians
METHODOLOGY
Interactive Lectures, Discussions and Practical Case Studies on all relevant areas to ensure participants grasp clearly issues presented.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
9:00

SESSION ONE – WHAT IS THE TORRENS SYSTEM?

  • Main elements of the system
  • Strength and weakness
  • Non-exclusive system
  • From paper to digital
  • Reforming NLC – the work must go on.
10.45

SESSION TWO – HOW DOES A STATE AUTHORITY DISPOSE STATE LAND?

  • Powers of the State Authority – discretionary, transparency.
  • Disposal by alienation – freehold, leasehold, premium, fees
  • Disposal otherwise than by alienation – TOL, permits
  • Land titles – qualified / final; Land Office / Registry; categories; NIL
  • Case study – lessons learnt
12.00

SESSION THREE – WHAT IS SECURTY OF TENURE?

  • “The register is everything” – ownership via adverse possession?
  • Indefeasibility – deferred or immediate? The error in Boonsom Boonyanit
  • Importance of security of tenure – legal, economic, Assurance Fund
  • Encroaching / trespassing into State land / private land - do squatters have rights?
  • Case study – lessons learnt
1:00 Lunch
2:00

SESSION FOUR – WHAT LAND DEALINGS ARE RECOGNISED?

  • Dealings under NLC – transfer, lease & tenancy, land charge & lien, easement
    - What if easement is not possible?
    - Is our Landlord & Tenant Law pro-tenant?
    - Can parcel owners rent out their property under Airbnb platforms?
  • Dealings under common law & equity
  • Dealings under customary law – jual janji, jual putus
  • Dealings under Islamic law – hibah, wakaf
  • Why is the “next step” necessary?
 

SESSION FIVE – LAND USE PLANNING & LAND DEVELOPMENT

  • The meaning of “development” – right or privilege?
  • Relationship between planning and development – concurrent or sequential?
  • Development control – know your planning law
  • Rights of neighbouring owners; locus standi
  • Planning Appeal Board
  • Lesson from Taman Rimba Kiara Project
  • Can wakaf land be developed? – What do “purchasers” get?
3:45 SESSION SIX – LAND ACQUISITION: LATEST ISSUES
  • Permitted purposes under LAA 1960
  • Pre-acquisition hearing – is it necessary?
  • Notice of intended acquisition (section 4) – is it mandatory?
  • What is “adequate compensation”?
  • Can a landowner claim “loss of profit”?
  • Role of Assessors
  • Can land acquisition be challenged?
  Q & A Session; Summing up.
5:00 End of Course