Chris Bryden

This Q&A looks at the effect of the sale of a business on a business and residential tenancy, where a business tenant uses a residential part of the property for a member of staff and has a protected tenancy under the Rent Act 1977 for that property.

This Q&A considers the steps required to enforce a child arrangements order made in this jurisdiction in the Republic of Ireland.

The Q&A considers whether a child arrangement order made by consent can subsequently be varied on the application of one of the parties.

This Q&A considers whether the receipt of child benefit by the other parent would prevent an application to the Child Maintenance Service.

This Q&A examines the potential options open to a defendant authority where they face a claim brought out of time under the Human Rights Act 1998.

This Q&A explains what to do where the claimant has no postal code address to include on their claim form as required by CPR PD 16, para 2.2

This Q&A considers whether there is a responsibility to make a referral to social services when a client raises concerns about a serious safeguarding risk to a child.

An order for committal is an order of last resort and usually will only be made after a series of non-compliances with court orders. Where a party fails to comply with a direction (such as to provide disclosure by way of Form E), the court will usually accede to a request to endorse the order with a penal notice, which is a prominent notice on the front of an order, warning that if the person against whom the order is made disobeys the court’s order, the person may be held in contempt of court and punished by a fine, imprisonment, confiscation of assets or other punishment under the law. Many

This Q&A considers what steps need to be taken to obtain a 'mirror order' in England and Wales where a consent order in respect of children has been made in another jurisdiction.

This Q&A considers whether an order resulting from financial remedy proceedings can be varied to achieve a clean break despite the parties deviating from the terms in the original consent order.

This Q&A considers whether there is a risk of a seller impliedly accepting a late completion or otherwise waiving its right to serve a notice to complete later, in relation to the Standard Commercial Property Conditions (Second Edition).

This Q&A looks at steps that may be taken where a single joint expert fails to file their report in accordance with an order in family proceedings.

This Q&A considers whether a child can be placed in Scotland by a local authority where a court in England and Wales makes an interim care order.

This Q&A considers whether service on solicitors in the UK can take place within six months of issue in accordance with CPR 7.5(2) where a defendant is based out of the jurisdiction and nominates a solicitor for service in the UK over four months after the claim has been issued. It also considers whether service in this situation would be in breach of CPR 7.5(1).

This Q&A looks at issues where a door in a street opens outwards, contrary to section 153 of the Highways Act 1980.

This Q&A considers whether constructive knowledge on the part of the claimant defeat a claim based on a breach of duty.

This Q&A considers the procedure for removing or changing a litigation friend, where a father is acting as litigation friend for three children and the mother wishes to apply for the father's removal.

This Q&A looks at financial remedy orders.

This Q&A considers the options where a firm of solicitors has been appointed as executors in the deceased's estate but they do not wish to act and wish instead to enable one of the beneficiaries to take out a grant and administer the estate.

This Q&A looks at whether an updated ‘How to rent’ booklet must be provided to an assured shorthold tenant after a statutory periodic tenancy arises.