Chris Bryden

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.

This Q&A considers what form of evidence is generally accepted to prove that acceptance was in fact posted under the postal rule.

This Q&A considers the implications under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for a mini-competition under a framework agreement, where the bidder is subject to a takeover before contract award.

This Q&A examines the legislation under which a local authority can remove illegal/unauthorised clothing banks.

This Q&A considers under which enforcement regime(s) a judgment of the courts of England and Wales could be enforced in Gibraltar.

This Q&A explains the responsibilities of a deputy appointed in respect of a protected person who has died without a personal representative.

This Q&A considers whether a notice to exclude the lease from the 1954 Act been served again given that a substantive term of the lease (rent payable) change

This Q&A considers the position where the landlord and tenant wish to agree a grant of a non-statutory renewal tenancy of only part of the existing holding.