Property Law

A review of Community Rights to Buy will begin this summer to look at how effective current powers are in allowing communities to acquire land or buildings. Community Right to Buy has now been in use for 20 years. During that time, there have been several additions and amendments to the original rig

A new scheme from the King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR) will allow communities across Scotland to take over ownerless land and buildings. The KLTR, the Crown’s representative in Scotland for ownerless property, today launches the Ownerless Property Transfer Scheme (OP

Old CollegeThu 9 June 202217:00 - 19:00 (BST) Join Edinburgh Law School for an Alumni & Friends Discussion with Professor David Fox, Professor of Common Law at the University of Edinburgh, and Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, to explore the question: What

"A veritable maze" was how Professors Gretton and Reid described the enforcement provisions of standard securities. It is for that reason that the Scottish Law Commission's (SLC) discussion paper on the reform of the law of heritable securities is a very welcome publication, writes Andrew Scott

The Lands Tribunal for Scotland has rejected an application by a landowner for the discharge of a real burden that would have deprived three proprietors in Glasgow's West End of their servitude right of use of a garden. The real burden bound owners in a disposition from 1882 "not to erect any buildi

The Faculty of Advocates has supported reform of the law on moveable transactions, and an end to the use of “work-arounds”. Currently, it can be difficult for businesses in Scotland to raise money using moveable assets, ie property other than land and buildings such as plant, intellectua