Christopher Snell

This Q&A focuses on rights of way arising by implication of law where land is demised from landlord to tenant.

This Q&A considers the procedure to be followed for a landlord to obtain possession of an assured shorthold tenancy (AST) where the tenant has sublet without consent.

This Q&A considers the risks to a tenant if the landlord fails to produce an EPC on or before completion of a lease.

This Q&A considers how to remove a family member in occupation in order for a family home to be sold with vacant possession and looks at possession from a licensee, possession from a tenant and enforcement of possession order.

This Q&A considers when a document is deemed served for the purposes of a case within the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and whether the CPR applies here.

This Q&A discusses the effect on the rights arising by reason of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 when a lease is assigned by the tenant to a third party.

This Q&A will consider notices seeking possession of property let on assured shorthold tenancies. In particular, where the property is owned by more than one person and/or there is more than one landlord.

This Q&A considers the application of the five-year rule in the context of LTA 1954 when the landlord’s executors seek to oppose the grant of a new tenancy on the basis of ground (g).

This Q&A discusses the most appropriate method to be adopted where a lease is to be extended and an updated plan substituted for the existing plan.

This Q&A considers whether a cause of action exists against an auctioneer for selling goods of a party that were on hire to that party.

This Q&A considers whether a company can return the customers money and refuse to provide the service where a person has completed and online purchase (for services) and money has been taken from their account. It goes on to consider whether the customer has any right of specific performance.

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 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 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 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 the meaning of an accredited financial investigator (AFI) and the powers they can exercise under POCA 2002.

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.