Conveyancing 2020

This is the 20th volume in the series and it offers a full and authoritative account of conveyancing law and practice during the year 2020. As usual the coverage includes:

• all reported cases
• all statutory developments
• much other material of interest to practitioners

The authors analyse court decisions on topics such as missives of sale; tenements; real burdens (including their variation by the Lands Tribunal); servitudes; wayleaves; competition of title; land registration; searches; leases; standard securities; boundaries and positive prescription; and neighbour law. Particular attention is given to the use of a servitude for a property other than the dominant tenement; servitude conditions; access for repairs; rentabatement in leases; overlapping titles on the Land Register; family property law; pre-emption and s 84 of the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012; a non domino dispositions; Airbnb and real burdens; high hedges; common good; and tenement repairs. The book concludes with an update by Alan Barr on property taxes, with a particular focus on the developing case law on land and buildings transaction tax.

Written in a clear, direct style, Conveyancing 2020 is an essential guide for practitioners to this fast-moving area of law.