Saturday, 26 July 2014

1 day Landlord & Tenant Management – A Risk Management Tool

 
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Course Information
Date: 26 August 2014 (Tue)
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: Concorde Hotel Function Room (f.k.a Le Meridien Hotel)
Fees: SGD450 (NETT)
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1 day Landlord & Tenant Management – A Risk Management Tool


Introduction

Landlord and Tenant law – What you should know? The programme highlights the practical issues that commonly arise in tenancies. This course will also walk you through sample Tenancy Agreements – commercial and residential.

Course Topics

1. Tenancy or a Licence?

2. Important Practical issues in Tenancies

  • Quiet enjoyment
  • Option to renew
  • Termination
  • Who is responsible for Repairs?
  • Reinstatement matters
  • When is yielding up?
  • Tips for considering tenant
  • Moving out
  • Evictions â€" when landlord wants you to move?
  • Getting your security Deposit Back
  • Good record keeping
  • Documentations are important

3. Renting a Property

  • Option to Lease
  • Exercising the Option
  • Letter of Offer by Landlord
  • Executing Tenancy Agreement before possession of premises
  • Inventory of furniture & fittings

4. Landlord and Tenant obligations

  • Return of security deposit
  • Air-conditioners
  • Minor repairs clause
  • Non-derogation from grant
  • Express & implied covenants commonly found in leases
  • Rent payable
  • Tenant must not commit the 4 types of waste

5. Breaches of Tenancy Contract

  • Non-payment of rent / service charge
  • Forfeiture of deposit
  • Liquidated damages clause or Penalty clause?
  • Can tenant set-off?
  • Letter of demand
  • Writ of distress
  • What things cannot be seized?
  • What if the things do not belong to tenant?
  • Writ of possession

6. Sample of Tenancy Agreements

  • Walking through Tenancy Agreements
  • Case-studies

Who Should Attend

  • Property developers
  • Property owners
  • Contract managers & executives
  • Leasing Personnel
  • Landlords
  • Tenants
  • Business Tenancies Owners

360 Degrees Trainer

Associate Professor Catherine Tay Swee Kian

Assoc Prof. Catherine Tay lectures law at National University of Singapore, NUS Business School in the Department of Strategy and Policy; and medical law and business law at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; as well as dental law and ethics at the Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. A/Prof Tay is an Associate Professorial Fellow, NUS.

She is a Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom and an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. She was called to the English Bar in 1978 and the Singapore Bar in 1980. She is an Associate Director, Bernard & Rada Law Corp.
She is an author of several law books including 'Contract Law'; 'Directors' Duties and Liabilities'; 'Business Law' ; E-Commerce Law; Intellectual Property Laws and 'Medical Negligence'. She has published several legal articles in prestigious international and local law journals.

A/Prof Tay studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree and a Master of Laws degree, in which she specialized in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance laws. She did her pupillage under the Honorable Lady Mary Hogg in London and returned to Singapore in the law firm of Rodyk & Davidson.

A/Prof Tay is also a member of the Centralized Institutional Review Board â€" Ethics sub committee of SingHealth hospitals and polyclinics; and is also a member of the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board / Research Ethics committee tasked to review the scientific and ethical aspects of research protocols. A/Prof Tay is an examiner on law and medical law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas. She was an external examiner in medical law at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.

She conducts in-house training seminars and workshops for hospitals, banks, statutory boards, hotels, commercial firms and companies, clubs and associations. She is also a legal consultant appearing on many television segments.

A/Prof Tay was a committee member of the editorial board of the Singapore Accountant Journal, Journal of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and the (United Kingdom) The Company Lawyer. She was on the Board of Overseas Editors for the (United Kingdom) Journal of Financial Crime, an official publication of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. She has presented conference papers at many conferences and seminars on Business Law, Medical Law, and Company and insolvency Laws overseas and in Singapore.

A/Prof Tay has published numerous articles in international peer reviewed journals such as BIOETHICS, the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine; the (United Kingdom) Journal of Business Law, (United Kingdom) Business Law Review; the (United Kingdom) Company Lawyer and the (United Kingdom) Insolvency Law & Practice, (United Kingdom) Tolley's professional negligence, (United Kingdom) Tottel's Professional Negligence, the Singapore Dental Journal; the Malayan Law Journal; the Securities Industry Review and The Singapore Law Gazette.

She received the 2008 Sinagapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction for consistently submitting timely, detailed and scholarly reviews.

A/Prof Tay cohosted a weekly talk show "In the Eyes of the Law" on NTUC RadioHeart and was a consultant to MediaCorp television series on consumer laws "What's Your Case" on TV Channel 5.

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