Conveyancing 2021

Conveyancing 2021, the twenty-third volume in the series, offers a full and authoritative account of conveyancing law and practice in Scotland during the year 2021. 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 tenements; real burdens (including their variation by the Lands Tribunal); pre-emptions; servitudes; competition of title; land registration; leases; standard securities; family property; professional negligence; boundaries and positive prescription; and insolvency law. Particular attention is given to contractual liability arising out of conveyances; tacit relocation in respect of leases; ancillary rights implied into servitudes; servitudes of necessity for repairs; assignation of standard securities; the sufficiency or insufficiency of descriptions of common areas; and judicial rectification and the loss of rights. An update by Alan Barr on property taxes has land and buildings transaction tax as its particular focus. The book concludes with a detailed account of the circumstances in which registration is required in the new Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land.

Written in a clear, direct style, Conveyancing 2021 is an essential guide for practitioners to this fast-moving area of law.

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

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

Andrew Steven is Professor of Property Law at the University of Edinburgh.