Understand the NSW Law Society Guidance on Climate Risks with our free summary
The Law Society of NSW has released practitioner guidance, which explores the interaction between climate change legal risks and solicitors’ professional duties, marking a significant milestone for lawyers in NSW as they take steps towards assessing climate change risks.
This paper summarises the new Guidance, the types of climate risk, including physical and transitional and the most effective way to discharge your duties and to communicate potential risks to your client.
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DownloadLegal Opinion: Do Real Estate Lawyers in NSW Owe Their Clients a Duty of Care to Advise and Warn in Relation to Climate Risk?
Conveyancers and real estate lawyers play a central role in advising their client on any risks with their planned home or investment asset. Going forward, climate change represents perhaps the single greatest risk to both property values and peace of mind.
We commissioned Norton Rose Fulbright, the pre-eminent environmental law practice in Australia, to consider the duty of care and other factors for NSW legal professionals. Their findings, which are being considered by the Australian Law Commission and NSW Law Society, are available exclusively through Groundsure.
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We believe that Australian home buyers need better, actionable information about where they can live and to make sustainable property investment decisions.
We are working with lawyers, lenders, insurers and key associations to deliver an effective way to advise clients and to mitigate conveyancers and real estate lawyers from potential future climate litigation.
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