Chris Bryden

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.

This Q&A considers whether an arbitrator under the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 can take account of a possible forthcoming change in the law when making their award.

This Q&A considers the approach to maintenance pending suit.

This Q&A considers how the income of a trust is taxed in the hands of the trustees and when distributed to the beneficiaries where the beneficiaries are all over 18 and TA 1925, s 31 applies.

This Q&A considers whether an agreement as to ownership shares made in a TR1 can override a different agreement in an earlier declaration of trust. The Q&A also considers whether the agreement in the TR1 is binding on the parties.

This Q&A considers whether Party A can validly make a single Part 36 offer to cover separate claims in two, non-consolidated sets of proceedings with Party B.

This Q&A considers potential remedies as to loans between cohabitants that are not repaid.

This Q&A discusses the significance of precisely when a defence is filed in circumstances where a claimant is seeking to obtain default judgment.

This Q&A considerst the requirement for an assured tenancy to be occupied as the tenant's only or principal home.

This Q&A considers whether a claim can proceed where two tenants serve notice and after service one withdraws under LRHUDA 1993.

This Q&A looks at whether an agreement to exclude statutory compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 will operate where the tenant ends the lease under a break option within five years.

This Q&A considers the definition of ‘grant of the tenancy’ for the purposes of calculating the price payable for premises under section 9(1A) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.

This Q&A considers whether it is necessary for a commercial landlord to commission new energy performance certificates when a lease is granted pursuant to the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015, SI 2015/962 and one does not already exist.

This Q&A considers whether, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, the section 48 application has to be on the First-tier Tribunal prescribed form from gov.uk or whether it is the case that as long as the information is included the form is not mandatory.