New Square Chambers

This Q&A considers what happens whether an authorised guarantee agreement will fall away when an assignee of a secure business tenancy with three years to run applies for a new lease under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

This Q&A considers whether a power of appointment can still be exercised by the trustee where the trustee holds an incomplete copy of the trust deed but where evidence of the missing part is contained in a letter from the solicitor who prepared the trust deed.

This Q&A considers who has the power to appoint new trustees of a lifetime settlement.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord waives his right to sue for breach of covenant when an extension was built on a long leasehold house without his consent and he subsequently accepts notice of change of ownership.

This Q&A considers how liability for a mortgage passes where an individual dies intestate with a real property held as beneficial joint tenants, which passes to the surviving joint tenant by survivorship. passes to the surviving joint tenant.

This Q&A considers the power of personal representatives in regards to funeral arrangements.

This Q&A considers what one party to an unmarried relationship who has child from a previous relationship can do to protect the child of that person. Specifically, this Q&A considers the scenario where the unmarried couple are jointly purchasing property.

This Q&A considers the procedure for rectifying a Will where there are minor beneficiaries.

This Q&A considers where the beneficial interest of land is in the name of individuals and the legal title is registered in a struck-off company whether there is a way they can register the title into their names without restoring the company.

This Q&A looks at the options available to a property owner who needs to erect scaffolding on another owner’s property if that owner refuses to grant a scaffolding licence and the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 does not apply.

This Q&A considers whether the sale of an estate asset by personal representatives that attracts CGT is payable from the net sale proceeds or the residuary estate.

This Q&A considers whether executors appointed in a testator's Will are able to each appoint a different attorney to take out the grant of letters of administration with Will annexed and where there is a minor interest requiring two personal representatives.

This Q&A considers the meaning of an accredited financial investigator (AFI) and the powers they can exercise under POCA 2002.

This Q&A sets out the issues to consider in terms of who may apply for a grant of representation where an individual has died while living abroad but where otherwise all connections are to the UK.

This Q&A considers whether a surrender by a tenant of specific rights in a lease to the owner of the freehold reversion (rather than to the tenant's immediate landlord who would not be party to the deed of surrender) be valid and sufficient to extinguish the rights where such deed of surrender is also expressed to be made for the benefit of the immediate landlord and ensuring that the immediate landlord has a right to enforce the terms of the deed through a third party rights clause.