Conveyancing 2022

Conveyancing 2022, the twenty-fourth volume in the series, offers a full and authoritative account of conveyancing law and practice in Scotland during the year 2022. 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; competition of title; land registration; leases, both commercial and residential; family property; professional negligence; boundaries and positive prescription; and insolvency law. Particular attention is given to the creation of real burdens; dealing with mistakes on the Land Register; judicial rectification and prescription; the methods of apportioning maintenance costs in tenements; and the irritancy of commercial leases. Three major pieces of legislation are given detailed coverage: the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Short-term Lets) Order 2022, the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022, and, insofar as it introduces the Register of Overseas Entities, the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022. An update by Alan Barr on property taxes has land and buildings transaction tax as its particular focus.

Written in a clear, direct style, Conveyancing 2022 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.