Frankie McCarthy, James Chalmers and Stephen Bogle (eds), Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie

Date01 January 2016
Published date01 January 2016
Author
Pages113-114
DOI10.3366/elr.2016.0334

The conveyancing world, Professor Robert Rennie remarked recently, has changed beyond recognition since he qualified in 1969 ((2014) 59(11) JLSS 13). A year after he received his practicing certificate, Scotland saw the introduction of the standard security, and reform continued apace with the opening of the Land Register, abolition of feudal tenure, and a host of accompanying reforms to title conditions and tenement law.

However, it is fitting that this Festschrift, written in honour of the author of Conveyancing in the Electronic Age (2008), looks to the future of conveyancing and property law, rather than wallowing in the past. The book is nominally divided into sections, with three essays under the heading “The Future of Property Law”. A full quarter of the book is devoted to analysis of the new Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 – including a very valuable contribution by Ann Stewart on the use of Advance Notices in the first six months since enactment. Other contributions discuss the practical effects of the new legislation or analyse the way it interacts with the underlying theory of property law.

Nonetheless, the past is not ignored in this volume. Hector MacQueen, lead law...

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