Frances Rooney
@FrancesARooney
Property and land registration law, author and speaker. All views my own.
I asked AI "tell me about Frances Rooney, solicitor" and it came up with this. There's nothing inaccurate as such but it misses things of course, so in my humble opinion anything generated still needs review and amendment by a human (which is not a bad thing!).

Judgment has been given this morning in the matter of For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) UKSC 2024/0042: supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
A brand new addition to the SLC library📚 Congratulations to our Commissioner, Ann Stewart, on the publication of the ninth edition of Conveyancing Practice in Scotland!
I'm delighted to announce the recent publication of my latest, the Conveyancing book in the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia 📚 Available on LexisNexis or as part of the hard copy SME through them.

We’re delighted to see the Scottish Government’s Programme for 2024-25 includes a Bill reforming the law on commercial leases. This will take forward the recommendations made by us in 2022! Programme for Government - gov.scot (gov.scot/programme-for-…)
Exciting News: Autumn 2024 & Spring 2025 Seminars Registration Open! - edinburghlawseminars.co.uk/seminars
The 6th edition of the magnum opus to be published on Thursday. Sincere thanks to all those mentioned in the preface, not least @AndrewJMSteven.
Some inheritance provisions in the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024 come into effect today. 1) Where a married/CP-ed person dies without a will and also has no surviving kids, their spouse/CP is now higher ranked than surviving parents/siblings for any residue estate. >
Lease retail, hospitality, or beauty premises? Is the Tenancy of Shops (Scotland) Act 1949 fit for: repeal, replace, reform? …. Have your say now! scotlawcom.gov.uk/law-reform/con…
We have now published our Discussion Paper on Tenement law: compulsory owners' associations! 🥳 It can be accessed at scotlawcom.gov.uk/law-reform/con… Consultation on the paper runs until 1st August 2024 - we encourage all with an interest to give us their views!
The Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024 has received Royal Assent. legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/2/pdf….
All set up and ready to go for today's full day Land Registration Masterclass by Lexares at RFPG 😀

Loving our new promo items - OS Map based scale rulers for quick metre calculation of title sheet boundaries. I'm handing these out at our full day property law and land registration masterclasses @RFPG2 next week - still time to book! See lexares.co.uk/cpd

Looking forward to our Property Law Masterclass (exclusive vs common rights) and Land Registration Masterclass full day CPD events next week at @RFPG2 in Glasgow. Still time to join us! See full details at lexares.co.uk/cpd

All ready to go for Lexares CPD seminar tonight on tacit relocation in commercial leases @RFPG2. More seminars throughout October - check out lexares.co.uk/cpd

Our Conveyancing CPD events are kicking off tomorrow at @RFPG2 in Glasgow! Full details at lexares.co.uk/cpd 3 Oct - Tacit relocation reform 4 Oct - Breaking the lease 17 & 19 Oct - Case law updates 23 Oct - Property law masterclass 27 Oct - Land registration masterclass

