Acknowledging the importance of Scottish property practice to our customers, we are incrementally developing a new set of content on Scots property law for Scottish practitioners.
The Scotland collection is a research tool collating guidance on key areas of law that are specifically relevant to Scotland. The collection brings together Scots law content from across a number of practice areas and includes links to Practice Notes, Checklists and Q&As, as well as legal articles and analysis on legal issues directly affecting Scotland. See: Scotland collection. For a comprehensive list of Scottish property related content, see: Property in Scotland collection.
The scope and content of the Transferring property in Scotland topic has been developed in collaboration with leading Property experts in Scottish property practice.
Recognising that the Property Standardisation Group (PSG) (in collaboration with a number of other professional bodies including the Law Society of Scotland, the Scottish Property Federation, the City of London Law Society and the Model Commercial Lease) is the champion of market standardisation for commercial property documents in Scotland, and with grateful acknowledgement
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