Property law

Scottish Law Online

www.scottishlaw.org.uk/lawscotland/prop.html

Comprehensive set of links to sites bearing on Scottish property law (including conveyancing) and related issues: few of them unfortunately providing much by way of substantive legal content; for links to landlord/tenant/housing law sites (again with little in the way of reliable substantive content) go to www.scottishlaw.org.uk/lawscotland/landlord.html.

Gary Webster

www.propertylawuk.net/links.htm

Nicely designed site focusing on English property law, including tenancy issues: also has useful links to other English law resources.

The Property Standardisation Group

www.psglegal.co.uk

This group, comprising four of Scotland’s big legal firms, aims to standardise documentation commonly used in property transactions to save time and manage risk. To that end, this innovative site offers style letters of obligation, due diligence questionnaire, completion checklist and SDLT documentation. Plus, useful links to property related sites.

Arden Chambers

www.ardenchambers.com

This set specialise in housing law and related issues: the site gives access to a small collection of writings on housing topic by members of the chambers and most usefully, a complete set of the “eflashes”; accurate summaries of recent decisions of the English courts on housing law issues (also available in a free email service).

Scottish Executive Private landlord information

www.betterrentingscotland.com

This government site, aimed principally at small private landlords, nonetheless contains useful and information and links regarding the law affecting private landlords and tenants.

East Lothian Council

www.eastlothian.gov.uk/content/0,1094,237,00.html

A very good collection of links to housing law resources (including neighbour disputes and ASB) and housing law articles, all in a surprising place; provided by Iain Nisbet, solicitor.