Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Table of cases

Table of statutes

Table of orders, rules and regulations

1.  Introduction

1.1  General introduction

1.2  Historical background

1.3  Conceptual location

2.  Trusts

2.1  Trustees

(a)  Appointment of trustees

(b)  Resignation and removal of trustees

2.2  Powers of trustees and variation of trust purposes

(a)  Enlargement of powers of trustees and authority to perform acts

(b)  Authority for advances to beneficiaries

(c)  Retrospective authorisation of acts

(d)  Cy-pres schemes and the administration of public trusts

2.3  The necessity/expediency debate

3.  Judicial Factors, Curators, Tutors and Guardians

3.1  Appointment

3.2  Powers

3.3  Necessity and expediency

4.  Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Sequestration

4.1  Gazette notices

(a)  Failure to (timeously) insert statutory notice

(b)  Error in statutory notice

(c)  Other

4.2  Reporting, recording and registration requirements

4.3  Revival of sequestration / appointment of trustee

4.4  Loss of process

4.5  Recall of sequestration

4.6  Discharge from sequestration

4.7  Invalidation of company dissolution

4.8  Other

5.  Custody of Children

6.  Public Officers

6.1  Interim appointment of public officer

6.2  Assistance with administration of public office

6.3  Deprivation of public office

7.  Statutory Omissions

7.1  Terminology and context

7.2  Omissions not always dealt with under the nobile officium

7.3  Court of Session

(a)  Failure to carry out statutory duty or obtemper statutory process

(b)  Statutory process fails to achieve anticipated result

(c)  Power lacking

7.4  Judicial approach to statutory omissions

8.  Miscellaneous Procedure

8.1  Authority to change name

8.2  Evidence and witnesses

8.3  Contempt of court in civil proceedings

8.4  Authorisation of sheriff officers

8.5  Correction of errors, clerical mistakes and procedural omissions

8.6  Substituted authority to subscribe

8.7  Application of substantive equity and equitable discretion

8.8  Dispensing with other procedural requirements

8.9  Public records

8.10 Other

9.  The High Court of Justiciary

9.1  Statutory omissions

9.2  Incompetency, unlawfulness and irregularity

9.3  Excessiveness and oppression

9.4  Bias, fairness and natural justice

9.5  Errors

9.6  Other procedural challenges

9.7  Contempt of court

10.  Limitations

10.1  Scope of the nobile officium

10.2  Extraordinary or unforeseen circumstances

10.3  Relationship with statute

10.4  No other remedy available

10.5  Precedent

11.  Conclusion

Appendix A:  Procedural rules

Appendix B:  Statistics

Index