- Intermediate/Introductory *12 hours CPD
Company Law is undergoing the greatest changes since the Acts of the Gladstone government in 1844 and 1845. The Companies Act 2006 is being gradually brought into force and should all be operative by October 2009. Besides this there is the usual deluge of cases from the courts and also the implementation of the new offence of corporate manslaughter. This course will present a thorough review of company law as it stands and as it will shortly be.
- The new type of company
- Objects
- Entrenching articles
- Company names and company names adjudicators
- New model articles
- Changes necessary to model articles
- Codification of directors’ duties
- Directors’ dealings with their companies
- Removal of directors
- Disqualification of directors
- Decision taking in private companies
- Public company meetings
- Independent reports on poll voting
- Codification of rules on meetings
- Derivative actions
- Changes to unfair prejudice
- Abolition of authorised capital
- Changes to reduction of capital
- Abolition of reserve capital
- Changes to redeemable shares
- Abolition of unlawful assistance in private companies
- Changes to auditors
- Resignation of auditors
- Transitional provisions
- Corporate manslaughter
- Wrongful and fraudulent trading
- Company Law Reform
- The impact of Contex Drouzhba v Wiseman