The fourth edition of Company Law brings clarity and sophisticated analysis to the ever-changing landscape of company law. Hannigan captures the dynamism of the subject, places the material in context, highlights its relevance and topicality, and guides students through all the major areas studied at undergraduate level. The book is divided into five distinct sections covering corporate structure (including legal personality and constitutional issues), corporate governance (including directors' duties and liabilities), shareholders' rights and remedies (including powers of decision-making and shareholder engagement), corporate finance (including share and loan capital), and corporate rescue and restructuring (including liabilities arising on insolvency). The author's accessible writing style and comprehensive approach to the subject makes this an idea textbook for students of company law.
In Adams the court adopted a legalistic approach: ... we do not accept as a matter of law that the court is entitled to lift the corporate veil as against a defendant company which is a member of a corporate group merely because the ...
Case laws are integrated throughout the book to illustrate key topics. Students preparing for Company Law or Corporate Law paper of respective examinations will find this book immensely useful.
At a time of rapid development of EU and national company laws, this book will aid the understanding of an emerging discipline.
This book advances a real entity theory of company law, in which the company is a legal entity which acts autonomously in law, and company law establishes procedures facilitating autonomous organisational decision-making.
In this book the author performs a rigorous, systematic analysis of common law, contract law, property law, agency law, partnership law, trust law, and corporate statutory law using judicial rulings that prove shareholders do not own ...
The book is also supported by a companion website offering self-test questions, a useful glossary and annotated web links.
This successful textbook remains the only offering for students of European company law, and has been fully updated.
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In Re HLC Environmental Projects Ltd (in liquidation); Hellard v Carvalho [2014] BCC 337, it was stated that the underlying principle is that directors are not free to take action 'which puts at real (as opposed to remote) risk the ...