Chris Bryden

This Q&A discusses the information required to apply for a charging order over land under CPR 73 and how the creditor might obtain the information they need.

This Q&A considers what factors will be taken into consideration when a case is re-allocated from lay justices to a District Judge and whether there is any guidance that should be considered.

This Q&A looks at what fixed costs are applicable for money claims suitable for allocation to the intermediate track but where default judgment is entered. It also considers the impact of a Part 36 offer, if made, on the recoverable fixed costs.

This Q&A considers what form of notice is required to satisfy section 2(1)(a) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995 where a witness is unavailable and the other parties need to be informed of the intention to rely on hearsay evidence of the witness who cannot attend trial.

This Q&A considers what form of security of tenure governs a lease with a telecommunications provider granted in 1998, where there is no reference to a telecommunications code and expired in 2018.

This Q&A considers the guidance available for a forensic accountant valuation of shares in a limited company on divorce.

This Q&A considers the impact on a financial claim where one spouse dies during divorce proceedings.

This Q&A considers what happens to a headlease which has been disclaimed, out of which a number of subleases have been granted, where more than three months have passed, and no interested party has applied for a vesting order. It also considers the significance of the three months and the effect on the headlease and whether the Landlord can now negotiate a new lease to a new party (not an existing subtenant or other interested party, where forfeiture is not an option.

This Q&A considers what happens to a leasehold property owned by a foreign company if that company is struck off but the lease is not forfeited and what the options are for recovering ownership of the property.

This Q&A considers what happens to active litigation if all the directors of the claimant company resign before it is completed.

This Q & A considers what happens to Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) when they are superseded or become superfluous.

This Q&A considers what happens when a landlord steps back/wants to retire from his management obligations under a lease (in a situation where the right to manage company has been dissolved).

This Q&A considers the situation where an individual dies abroad and the family wishes the body to be repatriated, in light of the travel restrictions in place following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

This Q&A considers the Authorised Economic Operator scheme and what benefits it may provide to businesses in the UK when trading after Brexit.

This Q&A considers what constitutes an introductory tenancy for the purposes of HA 1996, s 124. It discusses the election by a LHA to operate such a scheme and the key features of an introductory tenancy including the trial period as prescribed by HA 1996, 125.

This Q&A considers the measures of damages where a tenant does not leave a property after expiration of a lease.

This Q&A considers the approach to be taken when challenging a spent criminal conviction in public children care proceedings in relation to contact.

This Q&A considers how to measure the centre of the highway in relation to frontagers and whether the centre, is the calculation done on the full width of the footways and vehicular traffic roads combined.

This Q&A considers the consequence of a party deliberately disclosing the contents of without prejudice correspondence to a trial judge during oral evidence in a case where there is a dispute of fact, where there is only one witness giving live evidence on each side and witness testimony is the key evidence in the case.

This Q&A considers the procedure for an attorney of a sole executor to renounce administration for the use and benefit of the incapacitated executor.