Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether prescriptive rights can be acquired by long user through grazing horses on land if the site is not fenced or enclosed.

This Q&A considers whether the Etridge principles apply where a landlord is granting a lease to a tenant who has a guarantor.

This Q&A considers whether the failure to disclose a murder or death which took place on a property, on the part of the seller, amount to misrepresentation of a material fact.

This Q&A looks at the effect of the National Security and Investment Act 2021 on land subject to a telecoms lease of a mast.

This Q&A examines whether the summary offence of stalking under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 can apply in a situation in which someone is recorded without their knowledge and the recording is then published.

This Q&A considers whether charges under an estate management scheme create rentcharges.

Service charges allow the landlord of a property to recover from the tenant the costs of operating and servicing the building.The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (LTA 1985) sets out detailed provisions in respect of demands for service charges. These provisions however apply only to service charges payable by a tenant of a dwelling, and not to commercial premises. The Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 made certain amendments to LTA 1985 but did not make any change to the scope of those provisions.Service charge demands in respect of commercial premises are covered by a different regime, predominantly directed

This Q&A considers whether fixed costs apply in possession claims even if it is forfeiture for rent arrears under a long lease and the property is part commercial.

This Q&A considers whether notices under section 5 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 need to be served on qualifying tenants when selling the shares in a company which owns the freehold reversion of leases.

This Q&A considers whether settlement agreements for settling a commercial dispute always include promises to make payments.

Mini summary: This Q&A considers if the Representations Procedure (Wales) Regulations 2014 apply to complaints made by individuals listed in section 174(3) of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 when they make complaints in their own rights or only if the complaint is on behalf of the child.

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 an intermediate landlord needs to be party to a lease extension under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 where the lease is being granted by the freeholder who is the competent landlord.

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 a landlord have to re-serve the deposit protection certificate, EPC and gas safety certificate when an AST is renewed (ie a new fixed term is entered into with the same tenant).