All Outputs (17)

Mechanisms used by multinational oil companies to derail human rights and environmental litigations arising from the Niger Delta. (2023)
Journal Article
OCHEI, N.V., EZEANI, E.C. and ANDERSON, C. 2023. Mechanisms used by multinational oil companies to derail human rights and environmental litigations arising from the Niger Delta. African journal of legal studies [online], 15(2), pages 185-214. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163-17087384-bja10075

Multinational oil companies (MNOCs) usually claim that they have several obligations to protect human rights and the environment where they operate and to resolve any disputes with local communities arising from their operations in the shortest possi... Read More about Mechanisms used by multinational oil companies to derail human rights and environmental litigations arising from the Niger Delta..

Rockford Trilogy Ltd v NCR Ltd. (2022)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2022. Rockford Trilogy Ltd v NCR Ltd. Scots law times [online], 2022(20), pages 111-112. Available from: https://uk.westlaw.com/

Discusses Rockford Trilogy Ltd v NCR Ltd (IH) on the concept of the renewal of leases by tacit relocation, focusing on the exclusion of tacit relocation by implied, informal notice.

Bryson v Salmond. (2022)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2022. Bryson v Salmond. Scots law times [online], 2022(6), pages 34-36. Available from: https://uk.westlaw.com

This article discusses Bryson v Salmond (Sc Ct) n the interpretation of a real burden imposed upon a property to provide the method for establishing the sums due to a neighbouring heritable proprietor in respect of shared maintenance and repair costs... Read More about Bryson v Salmond..

MNOC's level of engagement with human rights obligations in transnational litigations from the Niger Delta. (2021)
Journal Article
OCHEI, N.V., EZEANI, E. and ANDERSON, C. 2021. MNOC's level of engagement with human rights obligations in transnational litigations from the Niger Delta. People: international journal of social sciences [online], 7(3), pages 18-41. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2021.73.1841

The approach that Multinational Oil companies (MNOCs) use to comply with their human rights obligations translates to the different levels of engagement with stakeholders. For example, concerns regarding alleged human rights and environmental violati... Read More about MNOC's level of engagement with human rights obligations in transnational litigations from the Niger Delta..

Real burdens and implied enforcement rights: the Scottish Law Commission's recommendations. (2021)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2021. Real burdens and implied enforcement rights: the Scottish Law Commission's recommendations. Juridical review [online], 1, pages 38-47. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

This article examines the Scottish Law Commission's final recommendations on the operation of Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 s.53 and the implications for the law of implied rights to enforce real burdens.

Ownership of fish. (2020)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2020. Ownership of fish. Scots law times [online], 2020(33), pages 229-233. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

This article considers the issues raised in Borwick Development Solutions Ltd v Clear Water Fisheries Ltd (CA) on whether fish which lived in fishing lakes were the landowner's property, or whether qualified property rights existed over them as wild... Read More about Ownership of fish..

Unilateral permission and prescriptive acquisition: a Scottish perspective. (2020)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2020. Unilateral permission and prescriptive acquisition: a Scottish perspective. Legal studies [online], 40(3), pages 477-493. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2020.3

It is common for a legal system to allow a person, in certain circumstances, to gain ownership of land by possessing it for a period of time. This is certainly true of both Scotland and England, although what is precisely required for possession to b... Read More about Unilateral permission and prescriptive acquisition: a Scottish perspective..

Conveyancing. (2019)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2019. Conveyancing. Edinburgh law review [online], 23(3), page 457. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2019.0588

This is a book review by Craig Anderson on George L. Gretton and Kenneth G. C. Reid's 5th edition of 'Conveyancing'.

Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: the role of the custodier. (2017)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2017. Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: the role of the custodier. Edinburgh law review [online], 21(2), pages 143-168. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2017.0408

This article is concerned with delivery of goods that are in the custody of a third party, rather than that of the transferor or transferee, this delivery being effected by intimation to the custodier. Building on the idea that delivery here is based... Read More about Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: the role of the custodier..

Cicero's law: rethinking Roman law of the late republic. (2017)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2017. Cicero's law: rethinking Roman law of the late republic. Edinburgh law review [online], 21(2), pages 308-310. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2017.0428

This is the authors review of Du Plessi's book Cicero's law: rethinking Roman law of the late republic.

Compromise agreements and heritable property. (2016)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2016. Compromise agreements and heritable property. Scots law times [online], 2016(320, pages 169-173. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk.

Discusses compromise agreements in the context of heritable property transactions. Considers key aspects such as the concept of compromise agreements and whether such agreements concerning heritable property require writing for a valid constitution.... Read More about Compromise agreements and heritable property..

Recovery of goods by a non-owner. (2016)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2016. Recovery of goods by a non-owner. Scots law times [online], 2016(22), pages 117-121. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk.

Considers, with reference to case law, recovery of goods situations which require the person with possession or custody of property to hand it over to non-owners, namely persons with neither a real right in that property nor any apparent personal rig... Read More about Recovery of goods by a non-owner..

Extinction of leases confusione. (2015)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2015. Extinction of leases confusione. Juridical review [online], 2, pages 185-214. Available from: http://www.westlaw.co.uk.

Investigates whether the Scots law doctrine of confusio, which operates to extinguish an obligation, applies where a landlord acquires a tenant's right under a lease, or vice versa. Considers issues raised by the application of the doctrine of confus... Read More about Extinction of leases confusione..

Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: operation and basis. (2015)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2015. Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: operation and basis. Edinburgh law review [online], 19(2), pages 165-185. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2015.0270

In this article, Craig Anderson examines the historical origins and current law of the Scottish rules concerning how delivery of goods in the custody of a third party may be validly effected by transferor to transferee. The author suggests that the f... Read More about Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: operation and basis..

Dispensing with the consent of a non-entitled spouse. (2014)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2014. Dispensing with the consent of a non-entitled spouse. Juridical review [online], 3, pages 177-186. Available from: http://www.westlaw.co.uk

Discusses the right given to a non-owning spouse to occupy the matrimonial home under the Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981 and in particular s.7 which allows the court to dispense with the non-owning spouse's consent to deali... Read More about Dispensing with the consent of a non-entitled spouse..

The protection of possession in Scots law. (2014)
Book Chapter
ANDERSON, C. 2014. The protection of possession in Scots law. In Descheemaeker, E. (ed.) The consequences of possession. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [online], pages 111-140. Available from: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-consequences-of-possession.html

This paper is concerned with how possession is protected in Scots law. Most of the paper is concerned with one possessory remedy in particular, the so-called possessory judgment. To see how this fits into the law of possession more generally, we shal... Read More about The protection of possession in Scots law..

Spuilzie today. (2008)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2008. Spuilzie today. Scots law times [online], 2008(38), pages 257-260. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

Assesses the legal doctrine of spuilzie, focusing on the Outer House ruling in Calor Gas Ltd v Express Fuels (Scotland) Ltd on whether a gas distributor had breached a dealership agreement with a gas supplier in failing to give proper notice when ter... Read More about Spuilzie today..