Christopher Snell

This Q&A considers whether an employee of a company can act as a witness to the signature of a deed on behalf of that company.

This Q&A looks at whether an individual with a beneficial interest in a property by reason of a resulting or constructive trust be able to grant an assured shorthold tenancy of the property.

This Q&A case study considers a serious of questions arising from a situation where electricity cables run under a plot of land, but there is no evidence of a deed of grant or wayleave in relation to them.

This Q&A considers the duties of a second legal charge holder who enters into possession of the property in circumstances where the first legal charge remains unsatisfied. More specifically, the Q&A considers whether the second legal charge holder will need to pay the first legal charge holder before selling the property.

This Q&A considers the ability of statutory water undertakers to lay foul sewers on private land.

This Q&A looks at the principle in Wheeldon v Burrows regarding the creation of easements and whether the rule applies retrospectively.

This Q&A considers how a declaration of trust can be brought to an end.

This Q&A considers whether, if a creditor claims inclusive of VAT on their proof of debt, the office holder can compel them to reclaim their VAT and only admit claim net of VAT.

This Q&A considers the necessary formalities of witnessing a Will.

This Q&A deals with the incorporation of contractual terms via a course of dealings.

This Q&A deals with information that is required, and the format thereof, when notice of assignment of a lease is given.

This Q&A looks at the information that needs to be given in relation to the extent of the property to be acquired in a notice to collectively enfranchise under LRHUDA 1993, s 13.

This Q&A considers obligations to use reasonable endeavours, contractual remedies where the buyer has not used reasonable endeavours including wasted legal costs and other losses.

This Q&A considers whether an equitable easement is binding on subsequent purchasers of the registered servient land if they have no knowledge of the easement.

This Q&A considers whether the rent under a lease can be payable before the date of the lease and the start of the contractual term.

This Q&A considers whether it is possible to claim adverse possession of land owned by a charitable trust.

This Q&A considers the resident landlord exception to the right to collective enfranchisement found in chapter 1 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.

This Q&A considers the circumstances in which interference with a right of way might become actionable.

This Q&A considers the rights of a mortgagee where a private charge holder has entered into possession of the security (the property) but has not sold the security.

This Q&A focuses on non-disclosure agreements and the implications of reducing the term of a non-disclosure agreement from five years to two years.