Author: Law Society of Scotland. Succession Law Sub-Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Andy Wightman
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857900765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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New and Updated Edition Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland and explores how and why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common. He tells the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment and politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made any difference, and what are the full implications of the recent debt-fuelled housing bubble, the Smith Commission and the new Scottish Government's proposals on land reform? For all those with an interest in urban and rural land in Scotland, this updated edition of The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a fascinating analysis of one the most important political questions in Scotland.

Author: Jayne Holliday
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509932348
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This book offers a global solution for determining the law applicable to a claim to clawback an inter vivos gift from a third party within the context of a succession. The book aims to identify an appropriate and applicable legal framework which supports legal certainty for cross-border estate planning and protects the legitimate expectations of the relevant parties. This is an area of private international law that has yet to be handled satisfactorily – as can be seen by the inadequate treatment of clawback from third parties in the 1989 Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons, and the 2012 EU Succession Regulation.

Author: Matthew Dyson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849468591
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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This book brings together past and present law commissioners, judges, practitioners, academics and law reformers to analyse the past, present and future of the Law Commissions in the United Kingdom and beyond. Its internationally recognised authors bring a wealth of experience and insight into how and why law reform does and should take place, covering statutory and non-statutory reform from national and international perspectives. The chapters of the book developed from papers given at a conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Law Commissions Act 1965.

Author: Shona Wilson Stark
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509906924
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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The Law Commission (of England and Wales) and the Scottish Law Commission were both established in 1965 to promote the reform of the laws of their respective jurisdictions. Since then, they have each produced hundreds of reports across many areas of law. They are independent of government yet rely on governmental funding and governmental approval of their proposed projects. They also rely on both government and Parliament (and, occasionally, the courts or other bodies) to implement their proposals. This book examines the tension between independence and implementation and recommends how a balance can best be struck. It proposes how the Commissions should choose their projects given that their duties outweigh their resources, and how we should assess the success, or otherwise, of their output. Countries around the world have created law reform bodies in the Commissions' image. They may wish to reflect on the GB Commissions' responses to the changes and challenges they have faced to reappraise their own law reform machinery. Equally, the GB Commissions may seek inspiration from other commissions' experiences. The world the GB Commissions inhabit now is very different from when they were established. They have evolved to remain relevant in the face of devolution, the UK's changing relationship with the European Union, increasing pressure for accountability and decreasing funding. Further changes to secure the future of independent law reform are advanced in this book.

Author: George Gretton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526518759
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 687

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Property, Trusts and Succession, Fourth Edition provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scotland in one convenient volume. The relevant rules of statute and common law are surveyed and frequent examples used, making this a highly practical and accessible text. The Fourth Edition of this popular text takes account of significant recent developments, including the draft Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill and the ongoing land reform agenda. There is a new section on succession to digital assets. The key contents also includes: - Personal and real rights, and types of property - Ownership and how it is transferred - Prescription - Land registration - Possession - Subordinate real rights, including servitudes, real burdens, leases and securities - Proper and improper liferents - Trusts: constitution, administration and termination - Testate succession - Intestate succession - Execution of documents - Human rights - Appendix on the feudal system Whilst aimed primarily at undergraduates, this important title is also a useful source of reference for practitioners seeking a modern introduction to this area of law. George L Gretton is Lord President Reid Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner. Andrew J M Steven is Professor of Property Law at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner.

Author: Dale McFadzean
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748698302
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Get started with using the library; find out what statutory interpretation and judicious precedent are; learn about finding and using case law and legislation; discover how to access and cite books, journals and other sources; take your study international with a guide to sources from Europe and further afield; and sail through your coursework and exams with handy tips for legal writing and research.

Author: Nigel V. Lowe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199580405
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1237

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'Bromley's Family Law' is a well-established and popular textbook with students and practitioners alike. This edition has been updated to take into account recent developments in family law.

Author: Ruiz Abou-Nigm Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474447880
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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How can private international law contribute to the development of the global legal architecture needed to integrate our emerging multicultural world society? Bringing together world-renowned academics and experienced private international lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions and institutions, the volume explores how private international law's connective capacity could be enhanced by more inclusive methodologies. This would allow it to better able to engage with the reality of the integration that it is there to promote. Based on comparative methodology, the volume examines legal practice, as revealed by national and regional case law. The scope includes the practice of international commercial arbitration; private international law regulatory frameworks; and legal theory.

Author: Vernon Palmer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748642129
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Returning to a theme featured in some of the earlier volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series, this volume offers an in-depth study of 'mixed jurisdictions' - legal systems which combine elements of the Anglo-American Common Law and the European Civil Law traditions. This new collection of essays compares key areas of private law in Scotland and Louisiana. In thirteen chapters, written by distinguished scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it explores not only legal rules but also the reasons for the rules, discussing legal history, social and cultural factors, and the law in practice, in order to account for patterns of similarity and difference. Contributions are drawn from the Law Schools of Tulane University, Louisiana State University, Loyola University New Orleans, the American University Washington DC, and the Universities of Aberdeen, Strathclyde and Edinburgh.