Chris Bryden

This Q&A looks at the effect of the grant of an underlease for a term that is longer than the term of the lease (eg that it operates as an assignment of the lease). It also considers the interaction of this rule with leases that benefit from the protection of Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. It also looks at the term of a discontinuous lease.

This Q&A considers the position where there are insufficient assets within an estate to discharge the legacies under the deceased’s will and whether an executor could be liable to pay any outstanding liabilities remaining after distribution of the estate.

This Q&A considers the effect of forfeiture proceedings on a tenant's ability to seek a business lease renewal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

This Q&A considers IHTA 1984, s 144 and, where the deceased’s Will directs an NRB legacy to a pre-existing settlement (a pilot trust), whether an appointment of this legacy to a surviving spouse within two years of the date of death would qualify as an appointment of property settled by Will.

This Q&A considers whether the parties in divorce proceedings can situation where translate an agreement as to finances into a consent order for approval by the court in circumstances where the decree absolute has been granted however the petitioner made no application for financial remedy within the petition.

This Q&A considers how a prescriptive easement can be established when there is a dispute as to its existence.

This Q&A considers financial remedy proceedings and joined issue.

This Q&A considers whether a letter from a land agent can constitute notice of a tenant's death for the purpose of Case G in Schedule 3 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.

This Q&A considers the extent to which co-owners of a legal interest in land can deal with it independently of one another.

This Q&A considers whether a non-occupying spouse can make a claim for the new partner of the occupying spouse to pay them rent in relation to their former matrimonial property.

This Q&A looks at the consideration of a marital agreement as a preliminary issue by a notice to show cause.

This Q&A considers the situation where the parties reach a child arrangements order by consent which stipulates that the father is to have no contact with the child and whether this is likely to be approved by the court in the absence of the parties.

This Q&A considers the rights to claim financial orders over property within divorce proceedings.

This Q&A considers the procedure for serving a claim where the defendant has died and there are no personal representatives.

This Q&A considers the options available to the executors if a claim is brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 where the residuary estate has been exhausted and the pecuniary legacies are subject to abatement.

This Q&A considers what happens in the event of the death of a tenant of a long commercial lease.

This Q&A considers the statutory protection to qualifying business tenants under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954).

This Q&A considers the possibility for a limited company to rely on section 42 and seek a renewal lease under LTA 1954

This Q&A considers whose responsibility is it to maintain/repair cast iron/steel channels in public footways which carry rain water from residential properties.

This Q&A considers a situation where there are four legal and beneficial owners listed on the title and six non-listed legal and beneficial owners, if all legal and beneficial owners need to sign the contract when selling a property, or only those listed on the title.