Chris Bryden

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the obligations on a spouse to repay sums to the other spouse should the marriage end when the sums have been withdrawn from matrimonial joint assets and spent on a mutually agreed venture?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

This Q&A considers the steps that may be taken to progress a financial remedy application where the respondent has not complied with the standard directions and is outside the jurisdiction.

This Q&A considers section 1(3)(a) of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 in relation to an exclusive right of a specific parking space.

This Q&A considers the whether the drafting of a sublease and headlease can be resolved where the term on each sublease is a day longer than the headlease and if a variation will be necessary.

This Q&A considers whether a lease which does not refer to successors-in-title and cannot be assigned would vest in personal representatives, or would come to an end on the death of a tenant who had a protected business tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

This Q&A considers terms to a contract of lease including transfer rights.

This Q&A looks at leasehold enfranchisement.

This Q&A considers whether a spouse/partner can administer a statutory declaration.

This Q&A considers how to remove a notice from the register of title in relation to a personal covenant to pay overage where that covenant is now spent.

The usual position is that if the bed of a river is not registered with separate title, the landowners either side own the land up to the centrepoint of the river and have certain obigations relating to the river. This Q&A considers whether the position change if the river is 'run' by a board of commissioners his relieves the landowners of their obligations regarding the river.

This Q&A considers the possibility of joinder applications in the context of summary judgments.

This Q&A considers enfranchisement applications where there are four self-contained blocks of flats.

This Q&A considers whether the death of a co-tenant brings a commercial lease to an end.

This Q&A considers collectively enfranchisement under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and whether purchaser can be limited by shares of guarantee.