Floating Charges in Scotland: New Perspectives and Current Issues

The floating charge is vital to secured transactions in Scotland and plays a key role in access to finance and corporate insolvency. Bringing together leading commentators at the forefront of the topic, this book delivers wide-ranging coverage of the history, theory, practice and potential reform of the floating charge. They examine floating charges from diverse approaches including 'black letter', socio-legal, law and economics, and comparative perspectives.

Author: Jonathan Hardman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/29/2024
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9781399530170

About the Author

solicitor in private practice and honorary lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Jonathan has published articles in the Juridical Review, Edinburgh Law Review and Journal of International Banking and Finance Law. He is author of 'A Practical Guide to Granting Corporate Security in Scotland' (W Green, 2018).

Dr Alisdair MacPherson is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Floating Charge (2020) and editor of Avizandum Statutes on Scots Commercial and Consumer Law. His work has also been published in leading law journals.