Conveyancing Half-Day Conference

The RFPG's Annual Conveyancing Half Day Conference 2024, with speakers Andrew Upton, Frankie McCarthy, Ewen Brown (Terra Frima Chambers) & More To Be Announced.

Frankie McCarthy: Owners’ Associations in tenement buildings

This seminar will summarise the provisional proposals in the Scottish Law Commission’s Discussion Paper on tenement law: owners’ associations. The Scottish Government are seeking to tackle to problem of tenement disrepair by legislating for every tenement to have an owners’ association with legal personality. Flat owners in the tenement will be members of the association, and will plan proactively for building maintenance through an annual meeting and budgeting process. The Commission are consulting on detailed proposals for implementation of the scheme, including potential enforcement powers for non-compliance and opt-outs for tenements in certain circumstances.

Frankie McCarthy is Professor of Private Law at the University of Glasgow and a Scottish Law Commissioner. She is currently leading Commission projects on heritable…