DLA Piper

This Practice Note considers property disputes in Scotland arising in delict, under the Occupiers’ Liability (Scotland) Act 1960 and consumer rights legislation. It also discusses liability for defective premises, and the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973.

This Practice Note considers property disputes in Scotland arising as a result of nuisance. It discusses invasion of interest in the use and enjoyment of private and public land and statutory nuisance created by the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

This Practice Note considers delictual property disputes in Scotland arising as a result of negligence or trespass, the test for negligence, duty of care and defences against claims founded in negligence.

This Practice Note sets out and explains the pros and cons of cryptoassets, including lower transaction costs and more efficient payments processing.

This Practice Note considers rent and how to recover rent arrears in commercial lettings in Scotland. It also considers the basic principles of non-domestic rates.

This Practice Note considers the main judicial and non-judicial remedies in the context of landlord and tenant disputes in Scotland, namely interdict, specific implement, payment action, damages action, recission, retention of rent, irritancy, hypothec and action for recovery of heritable property. The Note does not cover remedies in relation to agricultural leases.

This Practice Note considers the issues relating to the surrender (renunciation) of commercial and residential leases in Scotland. In particular it considers the types of renunciation, the land registration requirements, land and buildings transaction tax implications of renunciation, the additional rules applying to renunciation of commercial leases, renunciation in relation to an insolvent tenant and the impact of renunciation of headleases on sub-leases.

This Practice Note provides a detailed overview of the key participants in the Great Britain electricity market. This Great Britain (GB) electricity market overview covers the principal organisations/types of organisation involved in the generation, transmission, international interconnection, distribution, and supply of electricity (electricity wholesale market, electricity retail market, and electricity networks market). It also provides details of those who regulate and administer the main controls, industry codes, support mechanism and policies seen in the electricity market.

This Style is a letter notifying a tenant of a landlord’s intention to irritate a lease in respect of a monetary breach.

This Style is a letter notifying a tenant of a landlord’s intention to irritate a lease in respect of a non-monetary breach.