Chris Bryden

This Q&A relates to any special provisions relating to the ending of a lease for an electricity substation.

This Q&A considers the issue of medical suspension in the context of a zero hours contract, how to calculate the rate of pay of a zero hours employee who has been medically suspended from work, and how long the suspension would last.

This Q&A considers whether an employer who is notified of a ballot on industrial action is able to contact their employees, the union members, to communicate their side of the issue in dispute.

This Q&A considers whether the grant of a right of way permits the creation of additional access points over and above those existing at the date of grant.

This Q&A considers whether a guarantee survives the death of the guarantor.

This Q&A deals with how the relationship between adopted children and biological children of the same parents is treated for the purposes of priority to apply for a grant of letters of administration for one another on intestacy.

This Q&A considers how an individual wishing to settle part of a property which they own in a life interest trust can ensure they settle only the value of the available nil rate band of £325,000.

This Q & A considers how expenses incurred by local authorities in pursuance of their powers under HA 2004 s49 and 50 can be recovered.

This Q&A considers how a claimant’s solicitor can proceed with an order for sale, whether by public auction or private treaty, or whether an application to the court is required.

This Q&A considers what to do if a party does not engage in the process of sale after an order of sale has been made.

This Q&A looks at the drafting of lump sum orders in financial proceedings, and the circumstances in which an undertaking may be required together with the provisions regarding undertakings contained in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010). It also considers enforcement of an undertaking.

This Q&A considers what a transferor can do to compel the transferee to proceed and complete the registration if the OE is keen to remove itself from the ROE and whether an application to the Court/Tribunal be required under LRR 2003?

This Q&A considers whether the court has jurisdiction to order periodical payments for a child that is not disabled to include a carer’s allowance where an unmarried parent's income does not exceed the maximum threshold for an assessment via the Child Maintenance Service.

This Q&A considers whether deed of variation confirming that the new plan is substituted for the existing one is appropriate where an updated plan needs to be substituted for the existing lease plan, especially, when the terms of the lease itself are not changing and the extent of the demise is not increasing.

Mini summary: The Q&A considers the definition of the terms ‘Electric Vehicle’ and ‘Electric Motor Cycle’ in legislation for the purposes of an Off-Street Traffic Order made under section 32 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

This Q&A relates to the position of cohabitees who jointly own property.

This Q&A considers the remedies available to a landlord where the buyer has not signed the lease prior to the agreed completion.

This Q&A considers whether the terms of a consent order ordering the husband to transfer his interest in the matrimonial home severs a joint tenancy and whether the husband’s interest reverts to him by survivorship in the event the wife dies before the transfer is complete.

Guidance on the protection afforded to personal representatives when they are on notice of a potential claim against the estate but want to distribute as the claim is not being actively pursued.

This Q&A considers the position of grandparents with parental responsibility in an application by the stepmother for an order under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 that the children should live with her.