Directors: Duties, Responsibilities and Liabilities (6 hours)

In recent years company directors have faced a significant number of changes to their status, duties and liabilities from a wide range of legislation, particularly the Companies Act 2006. It is now possible to assess the practical impact of many of those changes and examine how directors should conduct themselves in order to comply with these rules and duties. This course provides a comprehensive examination of the different issues affecting directors and will benefit all company lawyers and their director clients.

• Appointment and removal
• Directors’ duties
• Derivative claims
• Liability: ratification, indemnity and D&O insurance
• Directors’ interests
• Substantial property transactions
• Loans to directors
• Company accounts and reports
• Service contracts and remuneration
• Insolvency considerations
• Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
• Health and Safety responsibilities
• Corporate governance responsibilities

Course Dates

20/09/2012 London

09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information

Ed Davies 
is a legal learning and development professional who has designed, written and delivered courses for the leading law schools, commercial know-how providers and independently. Following an academic background in law and economics he qualified as a solicitor in the City, working for Freshfields, Olswang and the FSA. He later worked extensively with the Practical Law Company as a freelance training consultant. His specialisations include company law, corporate compliance, corporate finance and contract law.