Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie

Read James Chalmers's tribute to Robert Rennie on our

All the essays in the volume are of high quality and well worthy of reading. They are well researched and cited and will be very useful material for anyone having reason to visit the same areas of law or practice.



The Clark Foundation for Legal Education and the School of Law, University of Glasgow have generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.

Contributors
Preface

1. Robert Rennie: A Career Retrospective
Lord Bonomy

ACQUIRING PROPERTY
2. "Tell Me, Don’t Show Me” and the Fall and Rise of the Conveyancer
Professor Kenneth G C Reid
3. A Puzzling Case about Possession
Lord Hope of Craighead
4. "It’s in the Post”: Distance Contracting in Scotland 1681-1855
Professor Hector L MacQueen
5. Assignation of All Sums Securities
Dr Ross Anderson

DEFECTS IN ACQUISITION AND HOW TO FIX THEM
6. Property Law, Fiduciary Obligations and the Constructive Trust
Lord Hodge
7. The Offside Goals Rule and Fraud on Creditors
Dr John MacLeod
8. A New Era in Conveyancing: Advance Notices and the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012
Ann Stewart
9. Bona Fide Acquisition: New in Scottish Land Law?
Professor David Carey Miller

ENJOYING PROPERTY
10. Res merae facultatis: Through a Glass Darkly
Sheriff Douglas J Cusine
11. The Use of Praedial Servitudes to Benefit Land outside the Dominant Tenement
Professor Roderick R M Paisley
12. Enforcing Repairing Obligations by Specific Implement
Professor Angus McAllister
13. Two Questions in the Law of Leases
Lord Gill

THE FUTURE OF PROPERTY LAW
14. Conveyancing: A Bright Digital Future?
Professor Stewart Brymer
15. Islamic Mortgages and Scots Law
Professor George Gretton
16. Completion of the Land Register: The Scottish Approach
John King

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
18. The Court and the Conveyancing Expert
Lady Paton
19. The Role of the Expert Witness in Professional Negligence Litigation
Gerald F Hanretty QC
20. Robert Rennie: A Bibliography
Bernadette O’Neill

Index

Ross G Anderson is a member of the Faculty of Advocates and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

Stephen Bogle is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow. He is a qualified Scottish solicitor (non-practising) whose primary research is within the area of obligations.

Lord Bonomy is a former Senator of the College of Justice.

Stewart Brymer is the founder of Brymer Legal and an Honorary Professor in Law at the University of Dundee.

David Carey Miller was Emeritus Professor of Property Law at the University of Aberdeen.

James Chalmers is Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.

Douglas J Cusine is a former Sheriff of Grampian, Highland and Islands and before that Professor of Conveyancing and Professional Practice of Law at the University of Aberdeen.

Lord Gill is Lord President and Lord Justice General.

George Gretton is Lord President Reid Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Gerald F Hanretty QC is a member of the Faculty of Advocates.

Lord Hodge is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Lord Hope of Craighead is a former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

John King is Business Development Director at the Registers of Scotland.

John MacLeod is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow.

Hector L MacQueen is Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh and a Scottish Law Commissioner.

Angus McAllister is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of the West of Scotland.

Frankie McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Succession (2012) and Family Law (with Griffiths and Fotheringham, 2013), and her work has been published in Child and Family Law Quarterly and the Edinburgh Law Review, amongst others.

Bernadette O’Neill is a doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow.

Roderick R M Paisley is Professor of Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen.

Lady Paton is a Senator of the College of Justice.

Kenneth Reid is Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Ann Stewart is Head of Knowledge Management at Shepherd and Wedderburn.

Kenneth Swinton is Division Leader (Law) at the University of Abertay.

© 2015 Frankie McCarthy, James Chalmers and Stephen Bogle. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.


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