Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers whether a tenant can apply to court under section 49 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 to determine the terms of acquisition in accordance with the served section 42 notice where the counter-notice served by the landlord was out of time specified in the notice.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord can bring possession proceedings, or must service a notice to quit, or must wait until a certain period of time has elapsed when a tenant does not vacate the property after serving a common law notice to quit.

This Q&A looks at notices served under section 42 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.

This Q&A considers notices under section 25 of the LTA 1954.

This Q&A looks at the power to appoint trustees where a life interest trust is created by a will, but which is silent as to the appointment of trustees.

This Q&A considers the availability of agricultural property relief for inheritance tax in the case of farmland subject to a tenancy under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.

This Q&A considers what costs form a third party to financial remedy proceedings should use for a pre-trial review/final hearing on the issue of the TOLATA 1996 claim that is being dealt with as a preliminary matter within the financial remedy proceedings.

This Q&A considers whether the custom of paying tithes for the upkeep of a parish as stated in a title document is enforceable against the owner of property.

This Q&A considers whether there is a valid express declaration of trust where the copy registered transfer indicates that the property is to be held as joint tenants but the TR1 was not signed by the transferees.

This Q&A considers whether it is necessary for the benefitting land to adjoin or be within a reasonable distance of the property in order to preserve rights such as right of way.

This Q&A relates to the scope of ‘administrative provision’ in respect of a deed of trust and in particular whether a variation to allow the trustees to take decisions as a majority would fall within such scope.

This Q&A relates to what will happen to shares in a company held by a trust where a beneficiary of the trust dies.

This Q&A considers whether a company can rely on section 21(1)(a) of the Limitation Act 1980 (LA 1980) to take action against an employee for taking funds without permission for their own benefit, which the company discovered over six years ago, or if the company is statue barred.

This Q&A considers the appointment of executors in a Will by reference to the partners in a solicitors' practice, where the firm ceases to exist after the death of the testator.

This Q&A considers whether an arrangement where a Will is to leave the testator’s property to their granddaughter subject to a tenancy of the property to the testator’s carers for their joint lives at a peppercorn rent have an adverse effect in respect of the RNRB.

This Q&A considers the distribution of legacies to minor grandchildren, where a Will leaves a legacy of sale proceeds of chattels to named minor grandchildren of the testator upon their attaining the age of 21.

This Q&A considers the legal requirements for buying an HMO where the seller has a valid HMO licence.

This Q&A considers how an administrator should be described in a property transfer deed and whether the transfer should be executed by the administrator in the same way as for an individual when an administrator has been appointed in a deceased estate.

This Q&A considers whether there is a route of appeal available against a Circuit judge's refused permission to appeal a District Judge's decision.

This Q&A considers whether a restriction can be registered at HM Land Registry against property that has been purchased by the respondent with the net proceeds of sale of the original property and where an application has been brought under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 in which the applicant is claiming an interest in a property by way of estoppel/constructive trust.