Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether the exclusion within the MEES Regs 2015, reg 20(3)(b), stating the Regulations do not apply to a tenancy granted for a term certain of 99 years or more, applies to a very long tenancy that contains a break option in the lease?

This Q&A considers which address a section 42 notice should be served upon by the executors of a tenant.

This Q&A considers whether a guarantee for a lease is effective if the registerable lease has not been registered.

This Q&A considers the home rights of a non-owning spouse where decree absolute has been pronounced

This Q&A looks at whether (and if so how) a landlord must serve notices under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 when proposing to dispose of a building in which the residential leases have been granted but not yet registered.

This Q&A considers how to start proceedings where a freeholder of a mixed use residential and commercial property would like to forfeit the lease on grounds of non-payment of rent.

This Q&A considers the land registration requirements when the grant of an underlease takes effect as an assignment (as the term of the underlease is equal to, or longer than the remaining lease term—Milmo v Carreras) and the underlease is granted out of an unregistered lease with more than seven years to run. It considers whether the assignment is an assignment by operation of law within the meaning of section 4 of the Land Registration Act 2002.

This Q&A considers whether there a landlord is prevented from bringing a monetary claim for rent arrears as a result of CPR PD 51Z.

This Q&A considers whether paragraph 3(h) of the new Electronic Communication Code extends access over land which is owned by a third party.

This Q&A considers whether a landowner subject to a right of way is obliged to maintain the land subject to the right of way.

This Q&A looks at what evidence needs to be submitted when amending the ownership section of a commons register under the Commons Registration Act 1965.

This Q&A considers whether a husband's share of the family home, which was to be transferred to the wife for nil consideration on divorce, will fall within the terms of an individual voluntary arrangement which was entered into before the financial order was made or the property transferred.

This Q&A considers the impact of a bankruptcy order where there is jointly owned property and the parties are divorced.

This Q&A considers the obligations on a spouse to repay sums to the other spouse should the marriage end when the sums have been withdrawn from matrimonial joint assets and spent on a mutually agreed venture?

This Q&A considers whether divorce proceedings in Sri Lanka will be recognised in England and Wales, and in what circumstances it may be necessary for the parties to also obtain a divorce in this jurisdiction.

This Q&A considers whether mortgage payments may be taken into account by the Child Maintenance Service in relation to child maintenance.

This Q&A looks at who will be the able to act in the administration of an estate where the personal representative appoints a firm of solicitors to act as their attorney and the PR subsequently passes away.

This Q&A considers whether an undertaking given via a solicitor that has since been disinstructed would remain valid.

This Q&A considers whether there is a lacuna in respect of Form 3 as regards ground 7A in Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1988.

This Q&A considers when a claimant establishes more than 20 years user of a right of access, and is then sent letters by the servient owner stating there is no access. More than a year later a claim for a prescriptive easement is made. An interruption could be claimed but ignoring this, could the claim be denied on the basis of no 20 years user immediately preceding the claim due to an objection?