Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can serve a warning notice to exclude LTA 1954 before the schedule of condition has been prepared.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can subsequently increase the premium which it has stated in its counter-notice under section 45 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.

This Q&A considers forfeiture of leases and what issues might arise where there is a guarantor of the lease.

This Q&A considers whether a landowner and operator can agree the relocation of a telecom mast or must they use the statutory notice procedure under the Telecoms Code.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can require, and enforce, a covenant by the tenant to grant an underlease/sublease of part of the demised premises to a specified third party.

This Q&A examines whether a legal services payment order be made for legal funding in exclusively Family Law Act 1996 proceedings

This Q&A considers whether a limited company in administration may execute a Deed of Surrender.

This Q&A discusses whether a local authority can acquire land by adverse possession.

This Q&A considers what action a local authority may be asked to take by adoptive parents where the adoption has broken down.

This Q&A considers if a local authority can grant a right of way or any other easement over public open space in a lease, and the application of section 123 of the Local Government Act 1972 if so.

This Q&A considers whether a local authority can refuse a Social Housing Relief claim because the relief assessment is inaccurate.

This Q&A considers whether a planning authority can grant retrospective planning permission for a development where it is the applicant, in circumstances where it knew that it needed planning permission ahead of the development.

This Q&A looks at whether a licensee is entitled to a rent repayment order under section 40 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016.

This Q&A considers whether a long leaseholder who is also co-owner of the freehold can extend their lease under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.

This Q&A considers the requirements for a Mesher order.

This Q&A considers the duty of mortgagees in possession when granting a lease of the property.

This Q&A considers the circumstances in which a non-biological father may be liable to pay child maintenance and the significance of whether the parties are, or where, married or parties to a civil partnership.

This Q&A explains whether a non molestation order can be extended retrospectively.

This Q&A considers whether a non-occupying party can claim occupation rent where they have not made any contribution towards the mortgage payments since they vacated. It also considers if notional sale costs would be deducted if the property was to be transferred to the occupying party rather than sold.

This Q&A considers whether a parent, in divorce proceedings and before a final order has been made regarding financial matters, can apply to the court for a child maintenance order for a child who is over the age of 18 while that child is at university (or intending to go to university), as opposed to only the child being able to make the application.