Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether the existence of a Form A restriction would prevent a sole proprietor from selling their property by appointing a second trustee as a party to the transfer deed.

Can tenants of benefitting land enforce a restrictive covenant entered into by the freeholder after the lease was granted? If so, can the landlord agree to release that covenant and so deprive the tenants of the benefit?

This Q&A considers whether an applicant within proceedings as to financial provision on divorce, or under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989, can seek an order that the applicant themselves pays child maintenance.

This Q&A considers how to vary a Stopping Up Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

This Q&A considers whether the court may make a lump sum order in relation to the payment of school fees.

This Q&A considers whether the court can make an exclusion order when a final care order is made.

This Q&A considers whether the court can make an order for the payment of spousal maintenance arrears within variation proceedings and whether an cross-application is required for the enforcement of the maintenance arrears.

This Q&A discusses when a court can make an order within financial proceedings in regard to a statutory child support assessment.

This Q&A considers whether an EPA attorney for a surviving tenant in common can appoint a second ‘proprietor’ or is a court order required.

This Q&A relates to the ability of an estate to pursue a financial remedy claim on behalf of a child, where the deceased had been a party to divorce proceedings.

This Q&A looks at whether the executor of on tenant in common can effect a valid transfer of a property where he is also selling as the attorney on the other side of the transaction.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can force the tenant of a AHA 1986 tenancy to pay half the cost of replacing windows.

This Q&A discusses whether the landlord of residential premises may serve a section 21 notice giving the tenant only 42 days’ notice where the landlord wants to move into the property himself and where the tenant has been in occupation for a number of years without a written lease being in place.

This Q&A considers whether administration charges can be demanded from tenants when the leaseholder has incurred legal fees or can they only be demanded as part of and when service charge is due.

This Q&A considers whether the notes taken by a contact centre regarding supervised contact visits, and which have been filed with the court in proceedings for a child arrangements order, can be disclosed by a party to the proceedings to their solicitor in relation to criminal proceedings without obtaining permission from the family court.

Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954) provides for statutory security of tenure for most business tenancies. As a result, a tenancy does not expire by effluxion of time but continues and either the landlord or the tenant can apply to the court for the grant of a new tenancy. The landlord can terminate the tenancy only through following the procedure as set out in the Act.By LTA 1954, s 38, parties cannot contract out of its provisions, save as permitted by LTA 1954, s 38A or the remainder of LTA 1954, s 38. LTA 1954, s

This Q&A considers whether parties can agree child maintenance within a consent order where the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has already undertaken a maintenance calculation.

This Q&A considers the process of acquisition of a freehold in a situation where there is a lease for 999 years.

This Q&A considers whether there can be ongoing criminal liability for a Personal Representative if the deceased's land has a public footpath across it which is obstructed.

This Q&A considers whether two same-sex (male) intended parents can apply for a parental order in a situation where they don't know which one of them is the biological father (but they know it is one of them).