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

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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.
— Donald B. Reid, The Juridical Review, 2016/1: 75-82.
Professor Robert Rennie has been one of the most influential voices in Scots private law over the past thirty years. Highly respected as both an academic and a practitioner, his contribution to the development of property law and practice has been substantial and unique. This volume celebrates his retirement from the Chair of Conveyancing at the University of Glasgow in 2014 with a selection of essays written by his peers and colleagues from the judiciary, academia and legal practice.
Each chapter covers a topic of particular interest to Professor Rennie during his career, from the historical development of property law rules through to the latest developments in conveyancing practice and the evolution of the rules of professional negligence. Although primarily Scottish in focus, the contributions will have much of interest to lawyers in any jurisdiction struggling with similar practical problems, particularly those with similar legal roots including the Netherlands and South Africa. As a whole, the collection is highly recommended to students, practitioners and academics.
The Clark Foundation for Legal Education and the School of Law, University of Glasgow have generously contributed towards the publication of this volume.
Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie
Frankie McCarthy, James Chalmers and Stephen Bogle (eds) | May 2015
x + 412 | 6 Black and White | 6.14" x 9.21" (234 x 156 mm)
ISBN Paperback: 9781783741472
ISBN Hardback: 9781783741489
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783741496
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783741502
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783741519
ISBN Digital (XML): 9781783746477
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0056
BIC subject codes: LNS (Property law), LNSH5 (Conveyancing law), LN (Laws of Specific jurisdictions); BISAC: LAW000000 (LAW / General); OCLC Number: 1133286721.
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
© 2015 Frankie McCarthy, James Chalmers and Stephen Bogle. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.

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