Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers how to document the purchase of a property in the sole name of the purchaser’s daughter to live rent free for life. It considers how to ensure that a lease intended to endure for the life of a specified individual is not void for uncertainty.

This Q&A considers the meaning of rent review clauses in the context of the Rent Act 1977 as amended by the Housing Acts 1980 and 1988.

This Q&A considers whether the assignor or assignee liable for the back rent where a rent review takes place in a new lease, but is assigned before the review is determined.

This Q&A discusses whether a residential tenant can make a deduction from their owed rent to make up for the landlord not carrying out repairs.

This Q&A considers the gender to be entered in a divorce petition when a party has changed gender.

This Q&A considers the right of long leasehold tenants to manage the building within which their properties are comprised using a right to manage company under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.

This Q&A considers the sale conducted by an LPA receiver where the proprietor is deceased. It also considers whether evidence of the proprietor's death is required, the use of a TR2 form, and the removal of the restriction in favor of the mortgagee.

This Q&A considers whether a section 42 notice must be served on a company which was a party to the lease but has now dissolved.

This Q&A considers the legal and professional obligations on a solicitor to disclose a dispute concerning a property being sold.

This Q&A considers whether easements can be created to prevent landlock over a single parcel of land.

This Q & A considers whether the grant of a lease of a building on land designated as open land is caught by the provisions of LGA 1972, s 123(2A).

This Q&A considers a claim by a widow for a beneficial interest in property owned by a deceased husband under the Married Women's Property Act 1882 and alternative claims.

This Q&A considers whether a suspended committal order made on a judgment summons can be executed (notwithstanding payment of the judgment debt being made) on the basis of a failure to pay sums accruing after the date of the judgment debt.

This Q&A considers the process to recover possession where the director of a company remains in occupation under CA 2006 and IA 1986.

This Q&A considers if you can create a reversionary lease (future lease) when there is no existing lease, ie. can you grant a lease with a term commencement date in the future not to take effect in possession.

This Q&A considers when a new rent deposit deed is required.

This Q&A considers whether a retrospective licence to alter will be sufficient, or whether a deed of variation will be required, where the tenant has altered the landlord’s retained property not included within the demise.

This Q&A considers the effect of a tenant entering administration whilst lease renewal proceedings are ongoing, under the LTA 1954.

This Q&A considers the date to be specified in an LTA 1954 section 26 request.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord is entitled to claim ongoing rent as an unsecured creditor where a tenant of a commercial lease has entered into administration, and the impact of the Insolvency Rules 2016, SI 2016/1024, r 14.22.