Floating Charges in Scotland: New Perspectives and Current Issues
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Leading experts cover history, current law, practice and reform to provide the definitive text on floating charges
- Examines floating charges from a wide range of different perspectives, including doctrinal, policy-focused, theoretical and comparative approaches
- Contributions from Ross G. Anderson, Jennifer L. L. Gant, George L. Gretton, Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair D. J. MacPherson, Donna McKenzie Skene, Magda Raczynska and Andrew J. M. Steven
- Includes a foreword by Lord Drummond Young
The floating charge is vital to secured transactions in Scotland and plays a key role in access to finance and corporate insolvency. Leading experts at the forefront of the topic deliver wide-ranging coverage of the history, theory, practice and potential reform of Scotland's floating charge. They examine floating charges from diverse approaches including ‘black letter’, socio-legal, law and economics, and comparative perspectives.
Contents:
- Foreword
- Lord Drummond Young
- Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgments
- Jonathan Hardman & Alisdair D.J. MacPherson
- Part I: The History of Floating Charges
- 1. The ‘Pre-History’ of Floating Charges in Scots Law
- Alisdair D. J. MacPherson
- 2. Borrowing on the Undertaking: Scottish Statutory Companies
- Ross G Anderson
- 3. The Genesis of the Scottish Floating Charge
- Alisdair D.J. MacPherson
- 4. The Story of the Scots Law Floating Charge: 1961 to Date
- George L. Gretton
- Part II: Theoretical, Comparative and Policy Perspectives
- 5. Law and Economics of the Floating Charge
- Jonathan Hardman
- 6. Floating Charges and Moral Hazard: Finding Fairness for Involuntary and Vulnerable Stakeholders
- Jennifer L. L. Gant
- 7. Hohfeld and the Scots Law Floating Charge
- Jonathan Hardman
- 8. The Species and Structure(s) of the Floating Charge: The English Law Perspective on the Scottish Floating Charge
- Magda Raczynska
- Part III: Practice, Doctrine and the Future
- 9. The Ranking of Floating Charges
- Jonathan Hardman and Alisdair D.J. MacPherson
- 10. The Floating Charge and Insolvency Law
- Donna McKenzie Skene
- 11. The Empirical Importance of the Floating Charge in Scotland
- Jonathan Hardman and Alisdair D.J. MacPherson
- 12. Reform of the Scottish Floating Charge
- Andrew J.M. Steven
- Index
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
ISBN: | 9781474458726 |
Author(s) | Hardman, J |
Format | Hb |
Publication Date | 30/06/2022 |