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Chris Bryden

Barrister, 4 King’s Bench Walk
Chris was called to the Bar in 2003 and since that time has built a busy practice across a range of areas, with an emphasis on Chancery practice. He enjoys a well-deserved reputation for his knowledge and expertise in each area. He appears regularly in the County Court, Family Court and the High Court as well as various specialist Tribunals, and has been involved in cases up to and including the Supreme Court. He regularly is instructed at Appellate level. He has extensive and wide-ranging experience particularly in the areas of wills, probate and inheritance disputes; property including adverse possession, boundary disputes and issues arising out of trusts of land; company and commercial work and financial remedies. Chris is head of the Family Group and head of the Property Team at 4KBW.

Chris is the author of numerous articles in publications such as the New Law Journal, Counsel and Family Law, amongst many other titles, and is the co-author of Social Media in the Workplace: A Handbook (2015, Jordan Publishing).
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Witness evidence in family proceedings
Witness evidence in family proceedings
Practice notes

This Practice Note sets out the general approach to witness evidence in family proceedings as provided for in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), Pts 22 and 24, and the format such evidence should take, including where a witness is unable to read or sign their statement. It also provides guidance on filing and service, witness summonses, requirements for both interim and final hearings and deposition evidence.

Who is liable for damage or injury to a tree subject to a tree preservation order if it falls, when the local authority has refused the owner’s permission to fell the tree (and will prosecute the owner if it does so) as it disagrees with the report commissioned by the owner that it is dangerous and at imminent risk of falling?
Who is liable for damage or injury to a tree subject to a tree preservation order if it falls, when the local authority has refused the owner’s permission to fell the tree (and will prosecute the owner if it does so) as it disagrees with the report commissioned by the owner that it is dangerous and at imminent risk of falling?
Q&As
Who pays the inheritance tax due on a failed PET where the PET was on the termination of an interest in possession trust during lifetime with trust assets passing absolutely to remaindermen? The Executors, the Trustees or the remaindermen?
Who pays the inheritance tax due on a failed PET where the PET was on the termination of an interest in possession trust during lifetime with trust assets passing absolutely to remaindermen? The Executors, the Trustees or the remaindermen?
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Who should enter into a retrospective licence for alterations where a tenant has carried out unauthorised alterations and since assigned to a group company—the defaulting tenant (in order to give the assurances in the licence about the obtaining of consents, carrying out of works etc), the assignee as the current tenant (because the licence is supplemental to the lease and may, in fact vary it) or both?
Who should enter into a retrospective licence for alterations where a tenant has carried out unauthorised alterations and since assigned to a group company—the defaulting tenant (in order to give the assurances in the licence about the obtaining of consents, carrying out of works etc), the assignee as the current tenant (because the licence is supplemental to the lease and may, in fact vary it) or both?
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Why would a landlord want to apply to court having served a section 25 notice (opposed) on the tenant? Why not just wait and see if the tenant applies by the termination date or else lose their right to a new tenancy?
Why would a landlord want to apply to court having served a section 25 notice (opposed) on the tenant? Why not just wait and see if the tenant applies by the termination date or else lose their right to a new tenancy?
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Will a rentcharge which has been registered against a freehold title also be enforceable against the owners of any leasehold titles which are granted out of the freehold title? Also, should the rentcharge be registered against the leasehold titles?
Will a rentcharge which has been registered against a freehold title also be enforceable against the owners of any leasehold titles which are granted out of the freehold title? Also, should the rentcharge be registered against the leasehold titles?
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Will an easement constitute an overriding interest where there have been subsequent transfers of title?
Will an easement constitute an overriding interest where there have been subsequent transfers of title?
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Will the RNRB be available where the occupier of the property had a lease for life?
Will the RNRB be available where the occupier of the property had a lease for life?
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Will using a landlord break clause in the last year of a commercial lease, have the same effect as contracting out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?
Will using a landlord break clause in the last year of a commercial lease, have the same effect as contracting out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?
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With reference to the 2013 Protocol and Good Practice Model: Disclosure of information in cases of alleged child abuse and linked criminal and care directions hearings, what case law deals with similar linking, but in relation to all children proceedings, not just care proceedings? What case law deals with concurrent criminal and private law proceedings?
With reference to the 2013 Protocol and Good Practice Model: Disclosure of information in cases of alleged child abuse and linked criminal and care directions hearings, what case law deals with similar linking, but in relation to all children proceedings, not just care proceedings? What case law deals with concurrent criminal and private law proceedings?
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With regards to housing disrepair matters, is the letter of authority/signed authority from the solicitor required together with the letter of claim before the pre-action protocol is engaged?
With regards to housing disrepair matters, is the letter of authority/signed authority from the solicitor required together with the letter of claim before the pre-action protocol is engaged?
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Would a (prospective) claimant Part 36 offer made in pre-action correspondence be invalidated if the proposed defendant were then to issue a claim over the same subject matter and therefore the offeror became the defendant?
Would a (prospective) claimant Part 36 offer made in pre-action correspondence be invalidated if the proposed defendant were then to issue a claim over the same subject matter and therefore the offeror became the defendant?
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Would a chlorine allergy be classed as a disability under the Equality Act 2010? Would a landlord’s duty to make reasonable adjustments apply to a request relating to an allergy?
Would a chlorine allergy be classed as a disability under the Equality Act 2010? Would a landlord’s duty to make reasonable adjustments apply to a request relating to an allergy?
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Would it be potentially fair for an employer to dismiss a care home employee if the reason for the dismissal was because the employee refused to be vaccinated against coronavirus (COVID-19)?
Would it be potentially fair for an employer to dismiss a care home employee if the reason for the dismissal was because the employee refused to be vaccinated against coronavirus (COVID-19)?
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Would section 57(3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 apply when there is a licence for a storage area between the lessee at that time and the intermediate landlord, but the competent landlord is a superior landlord?
Would section 57(3) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 apply when there is a licence for a storage area between the lessee at that time and the intermediate landlord, but the competent landlord is a superior landlord?
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Would service charge not reserved as rent count as rent for enlargement purposes? And does a premium constitute rent and prevent a term from being enlarged?
Would service charge not reserved as rent count as rent for enlargement purposes? And does a premium constitute rent and prevent a term from being enlarged?
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Would the granting of three separate licences to occupy to three individuals (unrelated) breach a covenant requiring a property to be ‘a private dwelling house’?
Would the granting of three separate licences to occupy to three individuals (unrelated) breach a covenant requiring a property to be ‘a private dwelling house’?
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Would the purchaser of a freehold interest subject to a residential student tenancy be able to enforce a parental guarantee, where the definition of the term landlord in that guarantee does not refer to the landlord’s successor-in-title?
Would the purchaser of a freehold interest subject to a residential student tenancy be able to enforce a parental guarantee, where the definition of the term landlord in that guarantee does not refer to the landlord’s successor-in-title?
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Would the RNRB be available where a deceased individual died in 2020 leaving their estate to their children but where they had sold their only residential property in 2018?
Would the RNRB be available where a deceased individual died in 2020 leaving their estate to their children but where they had sold their only residential property in 2018?
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Would the service of a notice under section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 by a freeholder in respect of proposed qualifying works to a residential block waive a right to forfeit which exists in respect of service charge arrears?
Would the service of a notice under section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 by a freeholder in respect of proposed qualifying works to a residential block waive a right to forfeit which exists in respect of service charge arrears?
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Practice areas

Qualifications

  • MA (Oxon) (2002)
  • LLM (2004)

Membership

  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Property Bar Association
  • Society of Construction Lawyers
  • Public Access Bar Association (Vice-Chairman and Treasurer)
  • Visiting Fellow, University of Bedfordshire (2011 - )
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Panel

  • Contributing Author
  • Q&A Panel

Education

  • Magdalen College, University of Oxford (1999-2002)
  • BPP Law School (2002-2003)
  • University College London (2003-2004)

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