Property Law

Would an application for adverse possession be successful where the registered freeholder is a limited company which has dissolved? The property would have vested in the Crown as bona vacantia. The Crown have not disclaimed the property nor confirmed that they wish to agree to a sale

How do the conditions relating to a ‘qualifying lease’ under section 119(2)(d) of the Building Safety Act 2022 operate?

On the sale of a residential flat within a 'relevant building' (for the purposes of section 117 of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022)), does the landlord have to give a Landlord's Certificate if the lease of the flat is not a 'qualifying lease' under BSA 2022, s 119?

Tenants may become members/shareholders of a management company that is responsible for the repairing and other covenants under occupational leases in a residential block, having been party to those leases, but the management company itself does not hold a legal interest in the building. Is this scenario covered by the Building Safety Act? It would seem in this scenario that the tenants cannot claim the benefit of caps (ie, it cannot be a ‘relevant building’) given the management company's role but I can't find any authority for this. If it is a relevant building then the management company presumably has to provide the landlord's certificate but how if it is not the landlord?

Is it the case in the situation where the freehold of a mixed use 8 storey building is still owned by the developer but there is a headlease over that part comprising the residential flats which is held by a social housing landlord, neither the freeholder nor the social housing landlord are obligated to pay towards either cladding or non-cladding remediation costs? Will a lease of a residential flat within such a building remain a "qualifying lease" if bought by a company if it was such as at 14 February 2022 ie will such a corporate successor in title to the flat continue to benefit from the leaseholder protections conferred by the Building Act 2022? Should a buyer of a flat within an 8 storey mixed use building obtain a leaseholder deed of certificate from the seller establishing that the lease is a qualifying lease for the purposes of the Act as part of the purchase process and should this be served on the landlord or retained in anticipation of any future request by the landlord?