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Contents

Contributors

vii

Preface

ix

1

Robert Rennie: A Career Retrospective

Lord Bonomy

1

ACQUIRING PROPERTY

2

“Tell Me, Don’t Show Me” and the Fall and Rise of the Conveyancer

Professor Kenneth G C Reid

15

3

A Puzzling Case about Possession

Lord Hope of Craighead

35

4

“It’s in the Post”: Distance Contracting in Scotland 1681-1855

Professor Hector L MacQueen

47

5

Assignation of All Sums Securities

Dr Ross G Anderson

73

DEFECTS IN ACQUISITION AND HOW TO FIX THEM

6

Property Law, Fiduciary Obligations and the Constructive Trust

Lord Hodge

97

7

The Offside Goals Rule and Fraud on Creditors

Dr John MacLeod

115

8

A New Era in Conveyancing: Advance Notices and the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012

Ann Stewart

141

9

Bona Fide Acquisition: New in Scottish Land Law?

Professor David Carey Miller

165

ENJOYING PROPERTY

10

Res merae facultatis: Through a Glass Darkly

Sheriff Douglas J Cusine

185

11

The Use of Praedial Servitudes to Benefit Land outside the Dominant Tenement

Professor Roderick R M Paisley

203

12

Enforcing Repairing Obligations by Specific Implement

Professor Angus McAllister

237

13

Two Questions in the Law of Leases

Lord Gill

255

THE FUTURE OF PROPERTY LAW

14

Conveyancing: A Bright Digital Future?

Professor Stewart Brymer

279

15

Islamic Mortgages

Professor George Gretton

301

16

Completion of the Land Register: The Scottish Approach

John King

317

PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE IN PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE

17

Primary Clients, Secondary Clients, Surrogate Clients and Non-clients: The Expanding Duty of Care of Scottish Solicitors

Kenneth Swinton

345

18

The Court and the Conveyancing Expert

Lady Paton

367

19

The Role of the Expert Witness in Professional Negligence Litigation

Gerald F Hanretty QC

381

20

Robert Rennie: A Bibliography

Bernadette O’Neill

395

Index

403