Chris Bryden

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the obligations on a spouse to repay sums to the other spouse should the marriage end when the sums have been withdrawn from matrimonial joint assets and spent on a mutually agreed venture?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

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.