Helen Galley

This Q&A looks at whether a company, which is not a trust company, can recover professional fees in light of the cases of Cooper, Re Campbell and Re Orwell’s Trust.

This Q&A looks at the circumstances where a deceased has not made a gift in their Will to an equal business partner, whether a deed of variation can be used to gift the deceased share to the business partner if all residuary beneficiaries and executors are in agreement and some evidence has been found that shows that the deceased wanted this transfer.

This Q&A considers whether a seller can enter into a contract for the sale of a freehold property subject to long leases conditional on the tenants not exercising their right of first refusal.

This Q&A considers the form of section 21 notice a landlord should use to terminate the tenancy when an AST for a fixed term was granted but has expired and the tenancy has continued.

This Q&A considers if a successor landlord can rely on a previous ground (f) section 25 notice at trial.

This Q&A looks at what expenses are reasonable where a Will contains a licence to occupy and provides for the beneficiary to be able to sell the original property and purchase a replacement.

This Q&A considers the legality of a prohibition to keep pets in a leased flat where the lessee is blind and requires a guide dog.

This Q&A considers whether the water authority is under a duty not to adversely affect the private system when they carry out works to the public system, where a private sewer connects to a public sewer.

This Q&A considers any remedies to a joint legal owner when net sale proceeds have been retained in their entirety by the other joint legal owner.

This Q&A looks at the rules in relation to the sale and purchase of replacement property under a Will trust, with reference to a case study.

This Q&A considers the scenario where a registered social landlord seeks a demotion order in respect of an assured tenancy and looks at whether the order granted creates a demoted assured shorthold tenancy.

This Q&A considers company voluntary arrangements and authorised guarantee agreements in respect of a tenant company assigning a lease. It considers what the landlord should do to deal with the tenant.

This Q&A considers the requirements for an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) in respect of a car servicing garage.

This Q&A discusses when consent is necessary under a registered restriction which has not been granted.

This Q&A considers the common law position on which the dominant owner of an easement can rely on where there is no obligation to enter and repair where the corporate servient owner has dissolved.

This Q&A considers whether a deed of appointment of new trustees executed only by the proving executor is sufficient to appoint additional trustees to act in a continuing will trust, where power is reserved to an executor.

This Q&A considers whether, if the property settled in a discretionary Will trust is appointed out to the testator’s surviving spouse within two years of the date of death, the deceased husband’s unused nil rate band will be available on the spouse’s subsequent death.

This Q&A considers whether the consent of a lessee is required to grant or register the lender’s charge on a re-mortgage of freehold land where land is subject to pre-existing long residential leases.

This Q&A considers whether the owner ‘X’ of registered land, the extent of which has been incorrectly registered so that some appears to be included within the neighbouring land, can enter a caution against the owner ‘Y’ of the adjoining unregistered land to ensure that X is notified when it is registered.

This Q&A considers the right to acquire a freehold share when one of the freeholders is missing.