Goode & Gullifer on Legal Problems of Credit and Security, 7th Edition

I. The Nature and Forms of Consenual Security

1. The Purposes of Security
2. The Concept of Security
3. The Classification of Security
4. What Constitutes a Security Interest
5. The Forms of Consensual Security
6. The Permissible Objects of Security
7. Accretions to the Security
8. Derivative Security Interests
9. The Scope of Secured Obligations
10. The Negative Pledge
11. The Subordination Agreement
12. Sale of Participation in Loan Assets

II. Attachment and Perfection of a Security Interest: General Considerations

1. Principles of Attachment
2. Perfection of a Security Interest
3. Registration under s.859A of the Companies Act 2006
4. The Specialist Registers
5. Proposals for Reform

III. Attachment, Perfection and Effects of Fixed Security in Non-Documentary Receivables

1. Introduction
2. Characterisation and Forms of Security
3. Attachment of Security Interest in Receivables
4. Perfection of Security Interest in Receivables
5. Rights Acquired by the Assignee
6. Legal Impediments to the Creation of Security over a Receivable

IV. The Floating Charge

1. The Conception of the Floating Charge
2. Fixed Charge versus Floating Charge
3. Shifting Assets: Control Techniques
4. Crystallisation of a Floating Charge
5. De-Crystallisation and Re-Crystallisation
6. Enforcement of the Security
7. The Future of the Floating Charge

V. Fixed and Floating Charges: Some Problems of Priority

1. Introduction
2. Principles of Priority at Common Law
3. The Impact of Legislation
4. Priority of Competing Security Interests
5. Competition Between a Fixed Consensual Security Interest and other Types of Interest
6. Ranking of the Floating Charge
7. Waiver of a Security Interest
8. Subordination of a Security Interest
9. The After-Acquired Property Clauseand the Subsequent Purchase-Money Security Interest
10. Impact of Insolvency on a Security Interest
11. Some Typical Priority Problems Outside Insolvency

VI. Interests in Financial Collateral

1. Introduction
2. Types of Financial Collateral
3. Methods of Holding Securities
4. The Nature of the Account Holder's Interest in Intermediated Securities
5. The Settlement Finality Directive and the Financial Collateral Directive
6. Interests in Financial Collateral created by Title Transfer
7. Security Interests in Financial Collateral
8. Rights of Use
9. Enforcement
10. Cross-border Security and the Conflict of Laws

VII. Set-Off: Netting and Abatement

1. Set-Off: Nature, Classification and Development
2. Contractual Set-Off and Netting
3. Current Account Set-Off
4. Independent (Statutory) Set-Off
5. Transaction (Equitable) Set-Off
6. Abatement
7. The Effect of Assignment on Independent and Transaction Set-Off
8. Other Aspects of Independent and Transaction Set-Off
9. Insolvency Set-Off: General Principles
10. Insolvency Set-Off: Special Situations

VIII. Some Aspects of Suretyship Law

1. General Principles
2. Bankruptcy
3. Vulnerability of Guarantee as Transaction at Undervalue