Edinburgh Law School academics contribute to Scottish Government consultation on law of succession
Thu 28 May 2020
In 2019, the Scottish Government undertook a consultation on the law of succession. In particular, they asked how, in the absence of a will, an estate should be split when there are both a surviving spouse or civil partner and children. It also sought views on alternative approaches for rights of cohabitants and stepchildren.
The Sottish Government has now published their response to the consultation on succession law. Alongside the formal responses to the consultation, in its response the Scottish Government relied on the views of a number of legal academics that were given at a Symposium on 'Reforming Intestate Succession Law,' which took place at Edinburgh Law School on 11 October 2019. They also singled out the articles by Professors Kenneth Reid and Alexandra Braun, published in the Edinburgh Law Review as raising a number of relevant points about intestate succession and having an effect on the Scottish Government’s approach going forward.
View the Scottish Government’s Law of Succession consultation response