Chris Bryden

This Q&A looks at a landlord’s options for recovering arrears and possession when a tenant company has been dissolved.

This Q&A considers whether a chargee needs to take possession of the property in order to discharge an outstanding debt where a legal charge over a property does not contain any power to appoint a receiver or take possession.

This Q&A looks at whether a written consent to do works outside the demised premises will be binding on an assignee of the landlord’s interest.

This Q&A discusses the release of a life interest where the life tenant does not wish it to vest immediately. It considers the tax implications.

This Q&A considers whether, in circumstances where a local authority entered into a lease with a charitable company and the charity executed the lease in accordance with section 260(3) of the Charities Act 2011, the charity should have executed the lease in the same way as a company incorporated under the Companies Act 2006, and if yes, what the effect would be of the charity failing to execute a lease validly.

This Q&A considers whether, where a local authority has created a country park under Section 7 of Countryside Act 1968, which is also a site of nature conservation and was designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 2004 and it now intends to redesignate the park for a different use, the local authorities have the power to change the park designation to allow for more flexible use of the land.

This Q&A examines what options a local authority has when there are two charges registered against a freehold property in Wales in respect of care charges under the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983.

This Q&A considers the obligations placed upon a local authority seeking to use compulsory purchase powers to reimburse the landowner for expenses they incur in obtaining professional advice on the process.

This Q&A considers whether the Secretary of State’s consent is required under section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, for an academy to build additional classrooms on school playing fields given the land has been used by an academy rather than a maintained school for more than ten years.

This Q&A considers the risks, if any, to a council if it continues with a claim for adverse possession when a small piece of land intended to be in the claim is also included in a planning application by an adjoining owner.

This Q&A considers the consequences of a failure by a competent landlord to identify an intermediate landlord when serving a counter-notice in response to LRHUDA 1993, s 42.

This Q&A considers section 42 notices and section 45 counter-notices under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, and the time-frame for serving them.

This Q&A considers the effect of a parent earning income abroad on any statutory child support calculation.

This Q&A considers what can be done in circumstances where a defendant accepts a claimant’s Part 36 offer prior to proceedings being issued and fails to make payment of the settlement sum within 14 days of the date of acceptance.

This Q&A considers the consequences of a partnership going into administration where one partner does not have the means to meet a court order.

This Q&A considers whether the right of succession applies to close family members of the surviving joint tenant under a tenancy to which section 4(1)(d) of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 applies.

This Q&A considers whether a claim for half of the equity by one cohabitant in a property can be opposed by the other cohabitant on the basis of duress where the cohabitant opposing the claim was suffering from depression when the opposing cohabitant agreed to transfer the property from their sole name into joint names with their cohabitant, who had made no financial contributions to the property.

This Q&A considers the consequences of sharing correspondence containing legal advice with family members who are not parties to the proceedings in the context of legal professional privilege.

This Q&A considers whether the accounts of a private limited company can be taken into consideration in financial proceedings.

This Q&A considers financial remedy proceedings and what options may be available in relation to obtaining information regarding a related trust, where one party to the proceedings is a beneficiary of several trusts.