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Legal Certainty in Real Estate Transactions

A Comparison of England and France

Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bertrand du Marais, David Marrani
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This comparative research was triggered by the assessment of property registration law published in the World Bank Doing Business reports (DB). The international and interdisciplinary team aimed to assess how legal certainty was imagined and put in practice in French and English law, using commercial real estate as a case study. Not only this study identifies the economic impact of the law in both jurisdictions, it also looked at the practitioners’ functions in the dealing with commercial real estate transactions. In other words, it analyses the topical position of practitioners such as the French notaires and the role of solicitors in England.

Nowadays, the profession of notaires is confronted to numerous challenges. For instance, nationality requirement for its access, has been ruled by the ECJ as contrary to the freedom of establishment and art. 49 TFEU and not justified by "the exercise of public authority".
In this study, the authors argue that the actual nature and the quality of the work done by the practitioners should be considered as well as financial cost and delays. They also argue that a liberalisation of professions such as civil law notaires would have very little impact on the cost associated with doing business. As a matter of fact, both the English and the French mechanisms are very similar in their objectives and outcome even though they handle the same transaction differently, because of the culturally different relevant angles.

With contributions of Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Camille Bourdaire-Mignot, Aurore Chaigneau, Bertrand du Marais, Youseph Farah, Philippe Frouté, Marios Koutsias, Régis Lanneau, Peter Luther, David Marrani, Alan Moran and Marie-France Nicolas-Maguin.

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Type of product Book
Format Paperback
EAN / ISSN 9781780682983 / 9781780687285
Series name Ius Commune Europaeum
Weight 250 g
Status Available
Number of pages viii + 134 p.
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Aug 16, 2016
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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  • Contents
  • Introduction. Comparing Legal Certainty in France and England
    Bertrand du Marais, David Marrani
  • Introduction. Introductory Remarks on Comparative Law and Interdisciplinarity
    David Marrani
  • PART I. THE IDEA OF LEGAL CERTAINTY. A. THEORETICAL APPROACH
  • What is Legal Certainty? A Theoretical Essay
    Youseph Farah
  • PART I. THE IDEA OF LEGAL CERTAINTY. B. PRACTICAL APPROACH
  • Contractual Centainty under English Contract Law
    Marios Koutsias
  • Comparing Company Law
    Camille Bourdaire, Aurore Chaigneau
  • PART II. LEGAL CERTAINTY IN PROPERTY TRANSACTION: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH
  • How to and why measure the Efficiency of Real Estate Transactions in France?
    M.F. Nicolas-Maguin
  • Overview of how a Real Estate Transaction is Conducted in France
    Peter Luther
  • Property Transactions in English Law: General Principles
    Alan Moran
  • Commercial Leases in English Law
    Jean-Sylvestre Bergé
  • PART III. MEASURING LEGAL CERTAINTY
  • Introductory Remarks on Legal Security: the Approach of French and European Law
    Philippe Frouté
  • An Assessment of Theoretical Proposals to deal with Heterongeneous Small Samples
    Bertrand du Marais
  • Conclusion. Comparative Law, "Economic Attractiveness of Law" and Legal Certainty: Some Concluding Remarks from a Pilot Project