Tolley’s Directors Duties
Description
This invaluable title provides practical guidance on the new law of company directors as outlined in the Companies Act 2006. Containing checklists, worked examples, and some everyday precedents, this easy-to-use book ensures full compliance for anyone the new legislation affects, including both PLC and Private Company Directors. This title looks at all the provisions regarding directors in the Companies Act – including practical advice on appointment, retirement, removal and disclosure obligations
Why this title is essential Tolley’s Directors Duties:
Directors will be required to demonstrate their commitment to ‘enlightened shareholder value’ – e.g. they will have certain responsibilities that go beyond those to their company and their shareholders.
Key benefits of Tolley’s Directors Duties:
- A cost-effective and efficient reference source on statutory duties, highlighting directors’ responsibilities.
- Promotes a better understanding of how directors’ duties have changed and how this will impact on your organisation’s internal processes in regard to enlightened shareholder value.
- Ensures you have the knowledge to take preventative action avoiding the increased possibility of class actions.
- Example-led practical analysis and advice from the company’s / adviser’s perspective – not purely a legal text.
- Understand the law in regard to conflict of interest and company secretarial responsibility.
New to Tolley’s Directors Duties:
This edition shows the fully consolidated legislation complete with 2009 commencement and regulations.
Author
By Philip Mitchell
Contents
1. Companies and Directors in Contemporary Society
2. Taking Office
3. The Position of Directors
4. Duties Generally Including Skill and Care
5. Fiduciary Duties and Disclosure of Advantage
6. Transactions Requiring Shareholders Consent
7. Remedies & Reliefs
8. Directors and Public Markets
9. Corporate Governance
10. Directors and the Workforce
11. Duties at Large
12. Disqualification
13. Precedents
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From basic reporting duties, including statutory accounts, membership, directors and capital to additional responsibilities, such as employment, health and safety, pensions, insurance, car schemes and taxation, Tolley’s Company Secretary Handbook is a one-stop solution for all your company’s compliance requirements.
