Full Description
Essential resource to study Company Law in one leading text
Smith & Keenan's Company Law, 19th edition, is the ideal companion for anyone studying company law. Providing straightforward, accessible coverage of the key legal principles you'll need to understand, written by experienced lecturers in the field. With up to date examples and cases, and study features to support your learning, including detailed case summaries and discussion of academic opinion. This resource comprehensively covers the fundamental legal issues with clarity and lots of practical examples to support your understanding of company law.
This textbook provides insight into the key cases, prompting you to practice and apply their principles to exam-style questions and develop your own views on the effectiveness of current laws. With an array of useful study features and examples, this book has the tools you need to understand how the law operates in the real world.
Contents
1. Introduction to company law
2. Promotion, incorporation and registration
3. Limited liability, corporate personality and the corporate veil
4. The articles of association
5. Directors and corporate management
6. Directors' duties
7. Removal of directors, disqualification and the personal liability of directors
8. Corporate governance and codes of conduct
9. Share capital, class rights and resolutions
10. Payment and transfer of shares
11. Capital maintenance and distributions
12. Debentures and charges
13. The statutory derivative action
14. Unfair prejudice and minority protection
15. Corporate failure and corporate rescue
16. Administration of a company
17. Liquidation and the distribution of assets
