Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers the requirements of the Estates Registration Service for estates in administration in the UK.

This Q&A considers whether you need to advertise all disposals of public open space land whatever the length of the interest, even a lease of less than seven years.

This Q & A considers whether community infrastructure levy (CIL) local land charges have 'leapfrog' capacity once registered.

This Q&A considers whether a Council Improvement Notice/Emergency Action Notice invalidates a section 21 notice which was validly served before the tenant complained to the Council.

This Q&A relates to the powers accruing to deputies to engage in litigation on behalf of a patient without being appointed a litigation friend.

This Q&A looks at the considerations for parental responsibility in relation to a biological father where there are potential applications by a stepfather for adoption, a change of name or parental responsibility.

This Q&A considers whether a Jervis v Harris clause imposes a duty on a landlord under the Defective Premises Act 1972 towards third parties.

This Q&A considers whether the intention to merge freehold and leasehold estates can be formed and acted on at some later point in time than when the two estates first become vested in the same person in the same capacity.

This Q&A looks at whether a notice under section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 has to be registered as a local land charge from the time it is served and in force.

This Q&A considers whether a notice under section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925 protects executors who have had power reserved to them.

This Q&A considers whether a patio constructed without a foundation constitutes a structure for the purposes of the Party Wall Act 1996.

This Q&A considers how a local authority should deal with a request pursuant to section 121 of the Housing Act 1996 (HA 1996) to exercise the right to buy in circumstances where one of the exceptions set out in HA 1996, s 124 apply.

This Q&A considers whether a rent deposit has to held in an interest-bearing account and any tax implications.

This Q&A considers whether a right by deed to a supply of electricity over neighbouring land includes a right to ‘upgrade’ a single phase supply to a three phase supply involving a replacement ‘transformer’ and ‘cables’ and an additional ‘pole’ to support the transformer or whether the neighbour could argue that these works would be beyond the original grant.

This Q&A considers the personal knowledge requirements of a senior person signing a statement of truth in support of an adverse possession claim.

This Q&A discusses the factors to consider when determining whether a site supervisor’s home forms part of a school site for the purposes of Schedule 3 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

This Q&A looks at whether a tenant is a 'qualifying tenant' under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 during the registration gap after the grant of a lease but before it is registered.

This Q&A considers whether fit notes must be provided by a term-time employee who is absent from work due to illness before the summer holidays if they are not expected to be at work during the summer holiday period.

This Q&A considers whether a torts notice has to be served following the forfeiture of a lease by peaceable re-entry where the lease includes a clause which provides that the landlord may dispose of goods left at the property.

This Q&A considers if agreeing to a surrender of a lease by operation of law on the basis of 'full waiver by the landlord of all claims against the company, whether past, present or future' prevent the landlord from submitting a proof of debt for rent arrears etc incurred prior to the surrender date.