Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether it is possible to charge the beneficial interest of a co-owner in property. It covers how an equitable charge can be protected on the register.

This Q&A considers whether a declaration of ownership of a piece of land or adverse possession in the alternative can be pleaded together.

This Q&A looks at whether a father who has a criminal record for drug related offences can have contact with his child.

This Q&A considers the disclosure of an order made in financial remedy proceedings outside of those proceedings.

This Q&A considers whether a freeholder is able to serve notice of an AGM on a lessee who is in breach of the terms of a long residential lease, without waiving the right to forfeit.

This Q&A considers whether A can grant a lease to B whereby A and B are both freehold owners.

This Q&A considers whether an application under section 37 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 can be dealt with at a financial dispute resolution appointment.

This Q&A discusses whether a landlord and tenant can agree the amount of compensation payable to the tenant for certain works.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can apply to HM Land Registry to register a registerable lease where the tenant has failed to do so.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can back-date insurance demands for a commercial tenant if lease is silent.

This Q&A considers the operation of right to manage companies set up pursuant to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.

This Q&A considers whether a deed of surrender releases the tenant from obligations under a lease (including an obligation to make good any loss of empty rates relief).

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can forfeit a lease by peaceable re-entry if the tenant is bankrupt, vacated the premises some time ago, and has substantial rent arrears (the lease allows for forfeiture if the tenant is bankrupt). Further, this Q&A considers whether liability under an AGA will cease on surrender of lease (express or implied) or forfeiture for bankruptcy.

This Q&A considers if a landlord can forfeit or re-enter for rent arrears where the contractual term has expired but the tenant has remained in occupation, what procedure should be followed and what is the authority for this.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can require a tenant to enter in a new fixed term assured shorthold tenancy (AST) following the expiry of the tenant's original fixed term AST and beginning of a statutory periodic AST.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord of an assured shorthold tenant can install a pay as you go electric meter.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can rely on ground 8 to terminate an assured tenancy when the rent is payable at different intervals from those stipulated in the wording of the ground.

This Q&A looks at whether a landlord can oppose a claim to collective enfranchisement on the basis that there are unpaid costs owed to the landlord from a previous claim.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can serve a notice on a tenant to repair damage to a property prior to the end of the term of the lease.

This Q&A looks at whether a landlord with an unregistered freehold can serve a section 25 notice under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.