Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether non-occupying owners can set the rent and other terms where one of the owners occupies the property in the case of joint ownership.

This question relates to a failure to serve notice of the right of first refusal and the effect of the same on a subsequent transfer.

This Q&A considers whether a covenant restricting the use of a property to a private residence or dwellinghouse would be breached if the landlord is a local authority.

This Q&A considers whether a right of way registered to a freehold title will automatically pass to the leasehold title.

This Q&A discusses whether the discharge and release of a charge over a property would require compliance where there is a standard restriction registered against the title preventing 'dispositions' without complying with certain conditions.

This Q&A considers if, where there is an LPA in place for finance and property, the donor still has mental capacity and the LPA provides authority for the attorney to make decisions before the donor loses capacity, the attorney can bring legal proceedings on behalf of the donor in relation to cases such as public services or personal injury. It also considers whether such cases would be within the scope of the attorney's authority under the LPA, if not, whether the donor would have to bring any such proceedings themselves with the attorney only able to apply to become litigation friend once the donor has lost capacity.

This Q&A considers what a potential administrator can do while waiting for letters of administration in order to issue proceedings in time.

This Q&A considers circumstances in which two clients, soon to be married, wish to make mirror Wills and are both in the process of getting divorced from their previous spouses. In particular, the question considers whether a contemplation of marriage clause would be effective in these circumstances.

This Q&A considers whether possession proceedings can be brought against an executor with power reserved who remains in occupation of a residential property following termination of a right to occupy, by executors who have a grant.

This Q&A considers whether contributions to an interest only mortgage are treated differently to contributions to a repayment mortgage in a potential Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 claim.

This Q&A considers whether, where two women are married and one conceives through donor insemination, which was done informally and not through a licensed clinic and without the consent of her wife, the second woman acquires parental responsibility for the child by being registered on the child’s birth certificate.

This Q&A examines the provisions of section 17 of the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 and other remedies available to formerly engaged couples.

This Q&A considers who may pass legal ownership where it is unclear who the legal owners are.

This Q&A considers the compensations payable by the landlord to the tenant in an agricultural tenancy, where the tenant undertakes improvements of the holding under the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

This Q&A considers which form should be used to apply for leave to oppose an adoption order.

This Q&A examines the scope of legal services which may be provided by local authority legal departments in England and Wales.

This Q&A considers liability for a falling tree where tree preservation order permission to fell has been denied.

This Q&A considers potentially exempt transfers (PET) and the consequences as to inheritance tax where the PET fails.

This Q&A considers who should enter into a retrospective licence for alterations where a tenant has carried out unauthorised alterations and since assigned to a group company.

This Q&A considers why a landlord would apply to court having served a section 25 notice on the tenant.