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Company Law provides comprehensive coverage of the principles and doctrine of company law, engages with corporate structures, governance, finance, and liquidation, alongside an in-depth exploration of key primary sources.
List of contents
- PART I The Corporate Structure
- 1: Formation, classification and registration of companies
- 2: The framework of company law
- 3: Corporate personality
- 4: Rules of attribution - corporate acts and liabilities
- 5: The company constitution
- PART II Corporate Governance - Directors' Roles and Responsibilities
- 6: Corporate governance - board structure and shareholder engagement
- 7: Board composition - appointment and removal of directors
- 8: A statutory statement of directors' duties
- 9: Duty to act within constitution and powers
- 10: Duty to promote the success of the company
- 11: Duty of care, skill and independent judgement
- 12: Duty to avoid a conflict of interest
- 13: Specific conflicts - CA 2006, Part 10, Ch 4 and Ch 4A
- 14: Directors' liabilities for breach of duty
- 15: Directors' liabilities and vulnerable transactions on insolvency
- PART III - Corporate Governance - Shareholders' Rights and Remedies
- 16: Membership and the incidents of membership
- 17: Decision-making and company meetings
- 18: Informed shareholders and stakeholders - disclosure and the limited company
- 19: The unfairly prejudicial remedy and the minority shareholder
- 20: The derivative claim and the rule in Foss v Harbottle
- PART IV Corporate Finance - Share and Loan Capital
- 21: Share capital - capital raising and payment
- 22: The doctrine of capital maintenance
- 23: Loan capital - secured creditors and company charges
- PART V - Corporate Liquidation
- 24: Liquidation and dissolution - winding up the insolvent company
About the author
Brenda Hannigan is Professor of Corporate Law. Her principal research interests lie in company and insolvency law, particularly in the areas of directors' duties and shareholder remedies, corporate governance, board roles and responsibilities, corporate purpose and shareholder engagement.
Summary
Company Law provides comprehensive coverage of the principles and doctrine of company law, engages with corporate structures, governance, finance, and liquidation, alongside an in-depth exploration of key primary sources.
