Floating Charges in Scotland : : New Perspectives and Current Issues / / ed. by Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair MacPherson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Ross G.,; Gant, Jennifer L. L.,; Gretton, George L.,; Hardman, Jonathan,; MacPherson, Alisdair D. J.,; Raczynska, Magda,; Skene, Donna McKenzie,; Steven, Andrew J. M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hardman, Jonathan,; MacPherson, Alisdair,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)

Leading experts cover history, current law, practice and reform to provide the definitive text on floating charges Examines floating charges from a wide range of different perspectives, including doctrinal, policy-focused, theoretical and comparative approachesContributions from Ross G. Anderson, Jennifer L. L. Gant, George L. Gretton, Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair D. J. MacPherson, Donna McKenzie Skene, Magda Raczynska and Andrew J. M. StevenIncludes a foreword by Lord Drummond YoungThe floating charge is vital to secured transactions in Scotland and plays a key role in access to finance and corporate insolvency. Leading experts at the forefront of the topic deliver wide-ranging coverage of the history, theory, practice and potential reform of Scotland's floating charge. They examine floating charges from diverse approaches including ‘black letter’, socio-legal, law and economics, and comparative perspectives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- PART 1 THE HISTORY OF FLOATING CHARGES -- 1 The ‘Pre-History’ of Floating Charges in Scots Law -- 2 Borrowing on the Undertaking: Scottish Statutory Companies -- 3 The Genesis of the Scottish Floating Charge -- 4 The Story of the Scots Law Floating Charge: 1961 to Date -- PART 2 THEORETICAL, COMPARATIVE AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES -- 5 Law and Economics of the Floating Charge -- 6 Floating Charges and Moral Hazard: Finding Fairness for Involuntary and Vulnerable Stakeholders -- 7 Hohfeld and the Scots Law Floating Charge -- 8 The Species and Structure(s) of the Floating Charge: The English Law Perspective on the Scottish Floating Charge -- PART 3 PRACTICE, DOCTRINE AND THE FUTURE -- 9 The Ranking of Floating Charges -- 10 The Floating Charge and Insolvency Law -- 11 The Empirical Importance of the Floating Charge in Scotland -- 12 Reform of the Scottish Floating Charge -- Index