Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether an employer who requires its workers to retrieve their payslips from a third party host that is cloud-based complies with ERA 1996, s 8.

This Q&A considers whether an executor with power reserved to them have a liability to pay inheritance tax on an estate or is this the sole responsibility of the proving executor.

This Q&A considers implied rights of access in an express covenant if no express right of access has been granted and the operation of LPA 1925, s 62 and LRA 2002 are expressly excluded.

This Q&A considers whether failure to serve a notice of change of landlord under section 3 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 prevents the new landlord from serving a section 21 notice to obtain possession of an assured shorthold tenancy.

This Q&A considers whether the highway authority are estopped from enforcement action against a structure which encroaches on to the highway because they failed to object to the grant of planning permission for it.

This Q&A raises a number of cross-border insolvency issues and the extra-territorial effect of English insolvency legislation. This Q&A addresses two alternative situations: the first situation where the insolvent customer is in this jurisdiction, and it is sought to apply section 233B of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986) to an overseas supplier, and the second situation where the insolvent customer is overseas, and it is sought to apply IA 1986, s 233B to a supplier in this jurisdiction.

This Q&A considers whether section 1(1) of the Trustee Delegation Act 1999 applies to property and financial affairs lasting powers of attorney as well as enduring powers of attorney.

This Q&A considers whether a six-month notice can be served at any time during a tenancy, taking into consideration HA 1988, s 21(4ZA).

This Q&A considers whether section 3 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 applies where a freehold is sold subject to assured shorthold tenancies and other short term lettings.

This question relates to the applicability of section 33 of the Wills Act 1837.

This Q&A considers whether the Building Safety Act 2022 overrides the agreed contractual position under the lease when determining whether it is the landlord or tenant who is responsible for paying the cost of remedial works to a building.

This Q&A considers whether Imerman v Tchenguizhas a wider application in family proceedings.

This Q&A considers whether the statutory obligation to inform and consult on a collective redundancy arises when Form HR1 is submitted, even if the employer subsequently decides to dismiss fewer than 20 employees for redundancy.

This Q&A considers valuations under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (LRA 1967) and which method of valuation under LRA 1967 should be used.

This Q&A considers the fixed costs regime set out in CPR 45 in respect of possession proceedings brought pursuant to CPR 55.

This Q&A considers whether the maxim ‘once a mortgage always a mortgage’ applies to prevent a mortgagee from transferring property to itself or a connected company, and whether such arrangement is a clog on the mortgagee's equity of redemption.

This Q&A relates to the rights of a long commercial leaseholder to extend or renew the lease

This Q&A considers whether the Supply of Extended Warranties on Domestic Electrical Goods Order 2005, SI 2005/37, applies in circumstances where the supplier’s/provider’s customer is a limited company. It also considers whether there is any equivalent regulation for business-to-business transactions.

This Q&A considers whether the surrender and regrant of a lease of a flat to incorporate a loft falls under one of the exceptions to the right of first refusal under the LTA 1987.

This Q&A looks at the types of tenancy and licence to which the Tenant Fees Act 2019 applies.