Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers against whom a charging order will be made where a property is jointly owned and only one of the joint owners is the judgment debtor.

This Q&A considers how the new code operates in relation to the building owner allowing access or use of a site.

This Q&A considers priority as between two interim charging orders, including the effect of the entry of notices in respect of those charging orders on the register to the property. It looks at the rules on priority under sections 29–30 of the Land Registration Act 2002 and the decision in Hughmans Solicitors v Central Stream Services [2012] EWHC 1222 (Ch).

This Q&A considers whether a departing tenant is liable to pay rent arrears in a situation where two tenants entered into a joint and several tenancy agreement and one tenant gives up possession after the service of a section 21 notice.

This Q&A considers whether legal privileged is waived if without prejudice documentation is relied upon as part of an interim payment hearing.

This Q&A considers whether (after the first year of employment), if an employee takes holiday or annual leave before it has been accrued, the employer can pay an employee only in respect of the holiday that has accrued at the time the holiday is taken, and withhold the remaining holiday pay until it accrues.

This Q&A considers whether, in a block of flats where the top floor flat has been retained unlet by the landlord, the landlord can develop and use the roof of the flat as a roof terrace, including granting a lease of the roof space, without triggering the right of first refusal.

This Q&A considers whether, in a case where the landlords are multiple individuals (A, B and C) who hold the property as tenants in common, A and B agree to the assignment, but C is refusing due to a personal dispute, consent from all three landlords is required for the assignment to be valid.

This Q&A looks at the steps that may be taken to protect a party to divorce proceedings where there has been extreme violence against them, including filing an application for an address to be kept confidential and remedies under the Family Law Act 1996.

This Q&A looks at whether a claimant has to agree to, and give permission for, a defendant to obtain a witness statement from a third party in civil proceedings.

This Q&A considers how a value of a claim should be calculated where there are different rates of interest a claimant is entitled to.

This Q&A considers the court's approach to a claim under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 or Married Women's Property Act 1882 for a beneficial interest where a non-owner of a property has carried out substantial works to the property.

This Q&A considers whether, in a compulsory purchase, the purchaser can require that the land be in a certain condition. It also considers if there is inert material on the land, the purchaser can charge the seller for the cost of removing the material by way of a reduction to the purchase price.

This Q&A considers waivers by implication or estoppel in a contractual option where one party requires the other to take a transfer of land.

This Q&A considers the position of a tenant who serves a break notice but does not vacate on the given date in a Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 protected commercial lease, which contains a break clause which does not require the tenant to give vacant possession as a condition precedent to operating the break clause.

The landlord’s solicitors have confirmed that they were given such authority from the landlord to sign the counter-notice however they have refused to provide evidence of this upon request.Is there any way to compel the landlord's solicitors to provide evidence of the authority?Part II of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) allows a tenant to acquire a new lease of their flat by service of a notice under LRHUDA 1993, s 42. The landlord is permitted by LRHUDA 1993, s 45

This Q&A considers whether a lease granted by a local authority to a registered provider of affordable housing can be assigned to a party that is not a registered provider.

This Q&A considers whether corporate trustees who are the landlord can include clauses limiting the liability of the trustees to the assets of the trust and the options the tenant may have.

This Q&A considers a lease in which the tenant seeks to remove part of a structural wall and the landlord is in agreement. Is it simply a question of the landlord consenting to that work through a licence (and possibly a supplemental lease to reflect the small amount of additional land)? If the lease makes no reference to the tenant’s right to do such work, would the other tenants be entitled to request the landlord refuses consent as per the recent judgment in Duval v 11-13 Rudolph Crescent Ltd.

This Q&A looks at whether a commercial tenant has the protection of the consultation procedure under LTA 1985, section 20.