Subjects:

Company Law

Contents:

1. The registered company

2. The legal consequences of incorporation

3. Types of company

4. Accounting, disclosure and the taxation of companies

5. A company’

s constitution

6. Membership agreements

7. The legal nature and characteristics of shares

8. The maintenance of share capital

9. Loan capital –

priority and the registration of charges

10. Directors and the management of a company

11. Duties of the management of a company

12. A director’

s contractual capacity to bind the company

13. The disqualification of company directors

14. The company in general meeting

15. The minority shareholder

16. Corporate liability

Appendices.

This book provides an excellent guide to all aspects of company law, focusing mainly on private companies. It takes full account of the new Companies Act, which extensively reforms many important areas of the law affecting both public and private companies. Comprehensive and practical, Company Law Handbook:-

• gives full coverage of new rules simplifying the law on private companies
• includes discussion of reform of directors’ duties
• provides commentary on the reform of the auditing system
• has a discrete chapter dealing with taxation issues
• is clear and practical with checklists and useful website addresses.