Full Description
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.
Contents
ForewordLord Drummond Young
Editors' Preface and AcknowledgmentsJonathan Hardman & Alisdair D. J. MacPherson
Part I: The History of Floating Charges
1. The 'Pre-History' of Floating Charges in Scots LawAlisdair D. J. MacPherson
2. Borrowing on the Undertaking: Scottish Statutory CompaniesRoss G Anderson
3. The Genesis of the Scottish Floating ChargeAlisdair D. J. MacPherson
4. The Story of the Scots Law Floating Charge: 1961 to DateGeorge L. Gretton
Part II: Theoretical, Comparative and Policy Perspectives
5. Law and Economics of the Floating ChargeJonathan Hardman
6. Floating Charges and Moral Hazard: Finding Fairness for Involuntary and Vulnerable StakeholdersJennifer L. L. Gant
7. Hohfeld and the Scots Law Floating ChargeJonathan Hardman
8. The Species and Structure(s) of the Floating Charge: The English Law Perspective on the Scottish Floating ChargeMagda Raczynska
Part III: Practice, Doctrine and the Future
9. The Ranking of Floating ChargesJonathan Hardman and Alisdair D. J. MacPherson
10. The Floating Charge and Insolvency LawDonna McKenzie Skene
11. The Empirical Importance of the Floating Charge in ScotlandJonathan Hardman and Alisdair D. J. MacPherson
12. Reform of the Scottish Floating ChargeAndrew J. M. Steven
Index
