Helen Galley

This Q&A considers whether a foreign embassy is able to be sued for a breach of their lease agreement.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can add clauses to a new lease such as prohibiting tenancies in a section 45 counter notice when those terms were not within the original lease at all.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can claim adverse possession of a plot of land in relation to their property if it has been tenanted for the duration of their ownership.

This Q&A considers if a landlord can exercise a landlord's break right in a lease during the moratorium when the tenant is in administration.

This Q&A considers section 25 notices under the LTA 1925 and whether a landlord can offer a new lease to a new tenant prior to the expiry of such notice.

This Q&A explores whether mortgagee has power to sell the property without a court order when they haven’t been paid.

This Q&A considers the nature of proposed easements.

This Q&A considers whether a right of way over land for utilities and to ‘repair, maintain and renew’ the services can be interpreted to include the right to install services if it is found the services have not been constructed.

This Q&A looks at the formation of a Will, prepared in the UK and relating to UK assets, and whether such a Will may be signed in France.

This Q&A considers whether adverse possession can be claimed over land owned by a railway.

This Q&A considers whether an easement can be gained by prescription over a fire escape.

This Q&A looks at whether an executor of an estate can appoint someone under a general power of attorney to sign a TR1 to complete.

This Q&A considers whether one legal owner can own the legal title to a property for one or more other beneficial owners as joint tenants.

This Q&A looks at whether an easement would bind additional land added to a servient property after the date of grant.

This Q&A considers whether a schedule of dilapidations is to be served by the landlords’ s solicitor or the landlord’s surveyor.

This Q&A considers whether the owner of a dominant tenement benefitting from a prescriptive right of way, can grant other parties of neighbouring land any rights in respect of that right of way.

This Q&A considers the legislation and guidance on the removal of managing agents of blocks of flats.

This Q&A considers whether service charge funds are to be held in a designated deposit/trust account, taking into consideration the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 and Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.

This Q&A looks at when the requirement to serve section 5 notices under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 applies to a freehold transfer.

This Q&A provides what should be included with a section 8 notice.