A handy guide to the Companies Act 2006, packed full of helpful features, including checklists, section by section commentary and appendices of useful materials and extracts, this book provides detailed commentary on the new Companies Act.
The Companies Act 2006 regulates companies within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. The Act was brought into on 1 October 2009 and superseded the Companies Act 1985. The Act provides a comprehensive code of company law for the United Kingdom, and made changes to almost every facet of the law in relation to companies. The key provisions are: The Act codifies certain existing common law principles, such as those relating to directors' duties; it implements the European Union's Takeover and Transparency Obligations Directives and it introduces various new provisions for private and public companies
This title is a concise and practical guide for private companies, explaining the procedures, obligations and liabilities of complying with the requirements of the Act.
The new Companies Act represents the most fundamental reform of company law for more than fifty years. The law on private companies will be comprehensively revised to make it easier to set up and run such a company. This timely book provides expert commentary on the key provisions of the Act, and how they will affect the practice of company law.
A comprehensive guide to companies legislation in a convenient paperback volume. Written from the perspective of the 2006 regime, it gives detailed section-by-section commentary alongside the Companies Act 2006 and surviving parts of the previous legislation as well as including the text of relevant statutory instruments.
This is an accompanying document to the Companies Act 2006, ch. 46 (available as a paperback version (ISBN 9780105446064) or a bound volume (ISBN 9780108507076))
The Companies Act 2006 promises to be the most radical reform of UK company law for decades. This very substantial piece of draft legislation with over 1200 sections and 16 schedules represents a seismic change to the company law landscape. Following the highly regarded Jordan's New Law Series format, this book offers an authoritative account of the background and effect of the Act. Focusing on the areas of change, the book combines analysis of the new provisions with essential cross-referencing to the law remaining in force, thus providing a comprehensive account of the forthcoming regime and its implications for UK company law practice. The book also includes the full text of the Act.
Currently, there exists a distrust of corporate activity in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and with increasing recognition of the threats of climate change and global, as well as national, inequalities. Despite efforts in the arena of corporate governance to address these, we are still beset with corporate scandals and witness companies facing large fines for their environmental and cost-cutting misdemeanours. Recognising that the usual responses to dealing with these corporate problems are not effective, this book asks whether the traditional form of the joint stock corporation itself lies at the heart of these problems. What are the features of the corporate form and how does its current regulation underscore these problems? Identifying such features provides a basis for the discussion to develop towards suggesting more progressive regulatory developments around the corporate form. More fundamentally, this book investigates a diverse range of corporate governance models that are emerging as alternatives to the shareholder corporation, including employee-owned, cooperative and social enterprises. The contributors are leading scholars from various backgrounds including law, management and organisation studies, finance and accounting, as well as experienced professionals and policy makers with expertise in social and cooperative business models and the role of employees in the corporation.