Chris Bryden

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.

This Q&A considers whether a claim for adverse possession, where 12 years of possession has been completed before 13 October 2003, where the registered land in question was initially subject to an informal ‘shared use arrangement’ between the Applicant and the Respondent (registered land owner) for use by the Applicant and the Respondent's tenants but the Applicant has taken exclusive occupation with an intention to exclude anyone else other than his invited visitors.

This Q&A considers whether a licence will automatically terminate if there is a change of ownership?

This Q&A considers whether a rentcharge registered against a freehold title can be enforceable against the owners of any leasehold titles.

This Q&A considers the status of an easement as an overriding interest when there has been succeeding transfers of title.

This Q&A considers when the Residential Nil Rate Band (RNRB) be available where the occupier of the property had a lease for life.

This Q&A considers the effect of a landlord break clause in the last year of a commercial lease.

This Q&A considers whether service charge increases fall within the rent standard policy guidance for rent increases.

This Q&A discusses the purpose of the 2013 Protocol and Good Practice Model: Disclosure of information in cases of alleged child abuse and linked criminal and care direction hearings.

This Q&A considers whether a letter of authority/signed authority from a solicitor is required together with the letter of claim before the pre-action protocol is engaged in a housing disrepair matter.