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The definitive text on floating charges by Scotland's leading experts 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. It presents diverse approaches, including examining floating charges from 'black letter', socio-legal, law and economics, and comparative perspectives. Key Features: - Covers the history, current law, practice and reform of this important area - Examines floating charges from a wide range of different perspectives, including doctrinal, policy-focused, theoretical and comparative approaches - Contributions 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 Steven - Includes a foreword by Lord Drummond Young Jonathan Hardman is Lecturer in International Commercial Law at the University of Edinburgh Alisdair D J MacPherson is Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen
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.
Summary
Leading experts 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.
