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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP | United Kingdom | 18 Aug 2023
Is your option to acquire land protected?
Instead of buying a piece of land for development outright, it is quite common for developers to take an option to acquire land from the landowner at…
Morton Fraser MacRoberts | United Kingdom | 9 Feb 2023
Scottish Law Commission Proposes Important Changes To The Law Regulating Commercial Leases
The Scottish Law Commission (SLC), the body in Scotland charged with proposing legal reform, has recently published a report making a number of…
Brodies LLP | United Kingdom | 7 Apr 2022
Time Up on Tacit Relocation?
Tacit relocation is a quirk of Scots law that can easily catch out landlords and tenants if they aren't prepared. Despite parties agreeing a lease…
Brodies LLP | United Kingdom | 21 Jan 2022
Scottish Law Commission - Discussion Paper on Heritable Securities: Default and Post-Default
"A veritable maze" was how Professors Gretton and Reid described the enforcement provisions of standard securities. It is for that reason that the…
Burges Salmon LLP | United Kingdom | 5 Jul 2019
Law Commissions publish responses to automated vehicles consultation
In 2018 the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission (the Law Commissions) launched a 3-year review into the legal…
Brodies LLP | United Kingdom | 25 Jun 2019
Scotland's securitisation shake up: Radical reforms to moveables law in Scotland on the horizon
The Scottish Law Commission has completed its consultation on the modernisation of the Scottish laws applicable to asset backed financing. On 19…
Brodies LLP | United Kingdom | 30 Apr 2019
What does change to traditional family structures mean for succession law in Scotland?
Change is certainly the theme of the moment. There is no doubt that society and the structure of families have changed significantly in the past 55…
Brodies LLP | United Kingdom | 9 Apr 2019
Charities: smoothing the path… to incorporation
Readers will be aware there has been a consultation on a review of Scottish charity law. We have blogged on the consultation topics. We have also…
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP | United Kingdom | 21 Mar 2019
When does a loss occur in the context of a contract for ground investigations?
The law of prescription in Scotland, or the period beyond which a claim will prescribe or become inactionable due to the passage of time, is currently…
Brodies LLP | United Kingdom | 6 Mar 2019
Rights of Cohabitants; is the law fit for purpose?
In Scotland, the legal framework concerning rights of cohabitants on the ending of a relationship is dealt with in Sections 26 to 29 of the Family Law…
