Chris Bryden

This Q&A involves a client who has a right of way over an adjoining piece of unregistered land and has registered a caution against first registration in respect of that land.

This Q&A considers the situation of peppercorn rent when a lease is extended.

This Q&A considers how possession of a property that a former partner has lived in rent-free and made no contributions can be recovered if it is not possible to change the locks or for the former partner to be removed.

This Q&A looks at redemption of rentcharges.

This Q&A considers whether it is necessary to commission a new Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) if the EPC which was previously supplied expires before completion of a sale or letting.

This Q&A considers whether the crossing of a privately owned bridleway would breach Section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA 1988), where this is the only point of access to the relevant land.

This Q&A considers whether a right of way granted to a tenant binds the landlord's successor in title following a transfer of the roadway to a third party.

This Q&A considers whether, in a situation where a company has adversely possessed unregistered land for ten years and wants to transfer its interest in the land to a related company compulsory first registration under section 4 of the Land Registration Act 2002 would be triggered.

This Q&A considers whether there is a relevant transfer under TUPE 2006 or simply a change in the terms of employment where employees employed by one company become jointly employed by that company and another company, and that joint employment subsequently becomes sole employment, either by the original employer or the other employer.

This Q&A considers how one of two rent owners under a rentcharge can be released from the benefit of that rentcharge.

This Q&A considers what amount should be inserted in the TR1 which gives effect to an acquisition under compulsory purchase powers.

This Q&A considers whether the local authority is required under the Academies Act 2010 or any other educational act to transfer the caretaker's house together with the school site?

This Q&A considers redemption of a mortgage by demise.

This Q&A considers the steps that a landlord can take to warn off its own secure tenant even though the site sits outside of the secure tenancy and no notice of a claim for adverse possession has been received.

This Q&A considers the basis on which property may be owned in England and Wales and how an interest in property may be protected.

This Q&A considers civil partnerships and marriages for the purposes of a divorce under M(SSC)A 2013.

This Q&A considers whether an old address specified on a debenture which was filed and accepted on the charges register at Companies House poses any enforcement issues.

This Q&A considers whether the value of a house in a deceased person's estate can be discounted to reflect the occupation of a non-owning, partner who was not a spouse or civil partner of the deceased?

This Q&A considers who should be served with notices and against whom possession proceedings should be brought in a case where a deceased landlord (L) had a verbal tenancy agreement with a tenant (T), allowing T to stay at the property indefinitely. T sublet the property to ST without L’s knowledge or consent, and now L’s executors wish to recover possession of the property.

This Q&A considers how to register a Declaration of Trust at HM Land Registry.