20. Robert Rennie: A Bibliography
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1972
Floating Charges: A Treatise from the Standpoint of Scots Law unpublished thesis (University of Glasgow).
1988
“Non-Oil Related Minerals and Reservation Clauses” Law Society of Scotland PQLE Paper (1988).
1992
“Introduction to Commercial Missives” in Law Society of Scotland PQLE Commercial Missives Seminar (1992) vol 80 4-23 (Edinburgh: Law Society of Scotland).
Book review of P Robson and K Miller Property Law (1991) (1992) 37(12) JLSS 476-77.
1993
“Mandates, Assignations and Arrestments” (1993) 38(5) JLSS 185-86.
“A Matter of Interest” (1993) 38 (9) JLSS 363-65.
“Letters of Obligation – A Classic Dilemma” (1993) 38(11) JLSS 431-33.
“Missives – Penalty Interest Clauses” with D J Cusine (1993) 38(11) JLSS 450-51.
“Warrandice: A Guarantee With Small Print” (1993) 5(Oct) PropLB 6-8.
Missives with D J Cusine (Edinburgh: Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland).
1994
“Inhibitions, Standard Securities and Further Advances” (1994) 39(2) JLSS 52-54.
Book review of A J McDonald Conveyancing Manual 5th edn (1993) (1994) 39(4) JLSS 121.
“Negligence, Instructions and the Lender’s Need to Know” (1994) 39(4) JLSS 135-38.
“Conveyancing - What’s Coming?” (1994) 39(12) JLSS 450-53.
“Dead on Delivery” (1994) 19 SLT 183-89.
“Possession: Nine Tenths of the Law” (1994) 26 SLT 261-65.
“The Theory and Ethics of Irritancy” (1994) (3) JurRev 283-91.
1995
“Negligence, Securities and the Expanding Duty of Care” (1995) JLSS 40(2) 58-61.
“The Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995” with D J Cusine (1995) 40(6) JLSS 221-225.
“Coal Mining Inquiries” with S Brymer (1995) 40(6) JLSS 238-39.
“Certificate of Title: Legal Context” (1995) 40(10) JLSS 377-79.
Book review of D M Walker The Law of Contracts and Related Obligations in Scotland 3rd edn (1995) (1995) 40(12) JLSS 466.
Book review of A Barr J M H Biggar A M C Dalgleish and H J Stevens Drafting wills in Scotland (1994) (1995) 18 SLT 170-71.
Book review of D M Walker The Law of Contracts and Related Obligations in Scotland 3rd edn (1995) (1995) 40 SLT 369.
“The Acquisition of Crofts” (1995) 63(2) SLG 63-66.
“The Feudal System – Going, Going, Gone?” (1995) 4 JurRev 321-31.
“The Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995” (1995) 5 JurRev 445-52.
“Grabbing the Proceeds of Sale of the Family Home” (1995) 17(Sep) FamLB 2-3.
“Rescission of Missives” (1995) 17(Oct) PropLB 2-4.
The Requirements of Writing with D J Cusine (Edinburgh: Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland).
“Letters of Obligation – Legal Lubrication” (1995) 1(1) SPLQ 76-82.
1996
“Alluvio in the Land Register: Shifting Sands and the Thin Red Line” (1996) 5 SLT 41-44.
“Keeping the Price and the Property: Sharp v Thomson” (1996) 1 JurRev 68-71.
“Law Reform at the University” (1996) 41(6) JLSS 221-22.
“The Professional’s City?: Lawyers of the City and the University of Glasgow” (1996) 41(8) JLSS 304-06.
“Requirements of Writing: Problems in Practice” (1996) 1(3) SLPQ 187-96.
“Setting Missives up – and Apart” (1996) 19(Feb) PropLB 2-4.
1997
Solicitors’ Negligence (Edinburgh: Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland).
“Prescriptive Possession in the Sasine and Land Registers” (1997) 2(4) SLPQ 309-15.
“The Sellers’ Remedies” (1997) 26(Apr) PropLB 1-3.
“The Sasine Register and Dispositions A Non Domino” with AM Falconer (1997) 42(2) JLSS 72-74.
“Sharp v Thomson: The Final Act” (1997) 42(4) JLSS 130-34.
“Negligence and the Duty to Disclose – A Turning of the Tide” (1997) 42(10) JLSS 405-07.
Professor McDonald’s Conveyancing Manual 6th edn with A J McDonald, S Brymer and D J Cusine (Edinburgh: T & T Clark).
1998
“Non-Feudal Landholdings in Scotland” with D O’Donnell (1998) 3(1) SLPQ 31-51.
“The Tragedy of the Floating Charge in Scots Law” (1998) 3(3) SLPQ 169-79.
“Conveyancing Case Law: Some Unexpected Results” (1998) 3(4) SLPQ 278-85.
“Faxed Missives – The Distinction Between Constitution and Transmission” (1998) 32(Mar) PropLB 2-3.
“Fraud and Forgery, and the Land Register” (1998) 36(Nov) PropLB 1-3.
“The Future of Conveyancing” (1998) 43(12) JLSS 21-23.
“The Reality of Real Burdens” (1998) 19 SLT 149-53.
Scottish Conveyancing Legislation (ed) with M Meston, R R M Paisley, K G C Reid and D J Cusine (Edinburgh: W Green) [loose leaf service regularly updated].
Annotations in Scottish Landlord and Tenant Legislation D Brand (ed) (Edinburgh: W Green).
1999
“Abolition of the Feudal System” (1999) 12 SLT 85-92.
Book review of A Wightman (ed) Scotland: Land and Power – The Agenda for Law Reform (1999) (1999) 38 SLT 325-26.
“Negligence: Liability of Each Individual Partner to the Firm” (1999) 4(1) SLPQ 13-18.
Missives with D J Cusine 2nd edn (Edinburgh: Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland).
2000
“Conclusion of Missives in the Modern Age” (2000) 5(4) SLPQ 346-55.
“The Modern Missive” (2000) 8 SLT 65-70.
“To Sharp v Thomson - An Heir” (2000) 31 SLT 247-51.
Book review of G L Gretton & Reid Conveyancing 2nd edn (1999) (2000) 45(2) JLSS 43.
Book review of Registration of Title Practice Book 2nd edn (2000) (2000) 45(12) JLSS 44.
2001
“Boundary Disputes” (2001) 13 SLT 115-19.
“Leasehold Casualties” (2001) 27 SLT 235-39.
“Solicitors’ Negligence and the Judgement of Solomon” (2001) 6(2) SLPQ 95-102.
“Statutory Personal Bar - Rei Interventus Replaced” (2001) 6(3) SLPQ 197-203.
“Solicitor’s Negligence: Third Parties Join the Queue” (2001) 6(4) SLPQ 304-13.
Minerals and the Law in Scotland (Welwyn Garden City: EMIS Professional Publishing).
Book review of C H Agnew Crofting Law (2000) (2001) 5(2) EdinLR 264.
Review of Professor McDonald’s Conveyancing Case Notes CD-ROM Production (Dundee University) (2001) 46 (1) JLSS 40.
2002
“Mineral Rights” (2002) 7(1) SLPQ 1-9.
“Solicitors’ Negligence: Rearguard Action” (2002) 7(2) SLPQ 87-96.
“The Role of the Expert Witness in Negligence Claims” (2002) 39 SLT 317-321.
Standard Securities with D J Cusine 2nd edn (Edinburgh: Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland).
2003
“A Matter of Opinion” (2003) 48(5) JLSS 32-35.
“In My Considered Opinion: A Decade of Disputed Advice” (2003) 48(8) JLSS 26-29.
“The End of Conveyancing As We Know It” (2003) 48(11) JLSS 15-18.
“House Rules” with L Freedman (2003) 17(27) Lawyer 23.
“Standard Securities” (2003) 71(1) SLG 26.
Land Tenure Reform (Edinburgh: Thomson/W Green).
2004
“Last Piece of the Jigsaw” (2004) 49(3) JLSS 26-27.
Book review of KGC Reid The Abolition of Feudal Tenure in Scotland (2003) (2004) 49(3) JLSS 59.
“Waste Paper” with G Gretton, R R M Paisley and S Brymer (2004) 49(5) JLSS 54-57.
“How Much Law, Anyway?” (2004) 49(8) JLSS 60-63.
“Will We Leave It to the Software?” in “What Next For Conveyancing?” with D Reid, R Mackay and S Brymer (2004) 49(11) JLSS 18-19.
“Solicitors’ Negligence: Dealing With Tricky Twosomes” (2004) 6 SLT 33-36.
“Widening the Duty of Care” (2004) 40 SLT 245-49.
Land Tenure in Scotland (Edinburgh: W Green).
Opinions on Professional Negligence in Conveyancing: the Opinions of Professor Robert Rennie (Edinburgh: Thomson/W Green).
2005
“Control of Land in the Post-Feudal era” (2005) 16 SLT 89-91.
“The Race to the Registers Revisited” (2005) 50(7) JLSS 53-55.
“Memorial and Opinion Intus Re: Automated Registration of Title to Land” with S Brymer, G Gretton and R Paisley (2005) JurRev 201-50.
Land Tenure and Tenements Legislation 2nd edn (Edinburgh: Thomson/W Green).
“Conveyancing” in The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia, Reissue (Edinburgh: LexisNexis)
2006
“Standard Missives and Negligence” (2006) 12 SLT 65-69.
“Solicitors’ Negligence: The Specialist and Best Practice” (2006) 35 SLT 225-30.
Book review of G L Gretton and K G C Reid Conveyancing 3rd edn (2004) (2006) 51(5) JLSS 48.
“Purchase Options in Leases” with D Bell (2006) 51(5) JLSS 49-50.
“Opinion for the Law Society of Scotland Relative to Special Mandates for the Adhibition of Digital Signatures” available at http://www.lawscot.org.uk/media/88205/opinion_of_prof_rennie.pdf
2007
“What sort of Lawyers Do We Want?” (2007) 1 SLT 1-4.
“Real Burdens – A Question of Interest” (2007) 14 SLT 89-93.
“Noting Title in a Non Feudal Era” (2007) 22 SLT 157-62.
Solicitors’ Negligence (Edinburgh: Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland).
Book review of A C Ferguson Common Good Law (2006) (2007) 52 (2) JLSS 45.
2008
The Promised Land: Property Law Reform (ed) (Edinburgh: Thomson/W Green).
“Barker v Lewis on Appeal” (2008) 12 SLT 77-79.
“Claims and The Credit Crunch” (2008) 36 SLT 239-44.
“An Idea Whose Time Has Gone” with L Freedman (2008) 53(9) JLSS 68-69.
Conveyancing in the Electronic Age with S Brymer (Edinburgh: Thomson/W Green).
“Supplementary Opinion by Professor Robert Rennie for the Law Society of Scotland Relative to Special Mandates for the Adhibition of Digital Signatures” available at http://www.lawscot.org.uk/media/88202/artl-supplementary-opinion.pdf
2009
“Counting the Costs in Tenements” (2009) 23 SLT 137-40.
“Marching Towards Equity – Blindfolded” (2009) 32 SLT 187-92.
Land Tenure and Tenements Legislation 3rd edn (Edinburgh: W Green).
2010
“Folly, Guilt and More Folly: The McCaig Cases” in J P Grant and E Sutherland (eds) Scots Law Tales (2010) (Dundee: Dundee University Press).
“Land Registration and the Decline of Property Law” (2010) 14(1) EdinLR 62-79.
“Solicitors` Negligence - New Developments” (2010) 29 SLT 159-64.
“The Ice Cream Man Cometh” (2010) 30 SLT 165-68.
“Law v Practice: Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Wilson” (2010) 40 SLT 219-24.
Book review of K S Gerber Commercial Leases in Scotland (2009) (2010) 14(1) EdinLR 170-72.
Book review of W M Gordon and S Wortley Scottish Land Law 3rd edn vol 1 (2009) (2010) 55 (4) JLSS 51.
2011
“Pre-2004 Real Burdens – The End Game” (2011) 23 SLT 163-68.
“Enforcement of Missives” (2011) 24 SLT 169-73.
“Interest Enforced” (2011) 28 SLT 217-21.
“Interpretation of Commercial Missives” (2011) 37 SLT 273-79.
“Missives in Motion” with S Brymer (2011) 56(12) JLSS 32-33.
“Property Law: How the World Changed at Martinmas” in E E Sutherland, K E Goodall, GF M Little, and F P Davidson (eds) Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years (2011) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
Book review of M Higgins, The Enforcement of Heritable Securities (2010) (2011) 15(3) EdinLR 510-11.
2012
“The 20 Year Rules and the McLetchie Amendment” (2012) 16(1) EdinLR 114-16.
“The Lodge with Three Names: Lubbock v Feakins” (2012) 16(3) EdinLR 438-45.
“The End of Immunity for Expert Witnesses?” with S Brymer (2012) 80(2) SLG 37-40.
Book review of G L Gretton and K G C Reid Conveyancing 4th edn (2011) (2012) 57(2) JLSS 7 [full version available online at bit.ly/xKU264].
“A Bold Step Forward” with S Brymer (2012) 57(3) JLSS 32-33.
“A More Flexible Approach to the Scottish Principle of Warrandice” (2012) LNB News 55.
2013
“Warrandice – The Threat of the Threat of Eviction” (2013) 4 SLT 27-29.
“Boundary Disputes Revisited” (2013) 27 SLT 189-94.
2014
“E-missives: What Now?” with S Brymer (2014) 59(1) JLSS 18-19.
“Lender Exchange Ahead” with S Brymer (2014) 59(2) JLSS 33 [fuller version available online at bit.ly/xKU264].
2015
Leases with S Brymer, T Mullen, M Blair and F McCarthy (Edinburgh: W Green/Scottish Universities Law Institute).
