The second edition of this successful book incorporates many important developments, such as the changing judicial approach to directors' duties and disqualification orders, recent developments in auditors' liability and the effect of the House of Lords decision in Sharp v Thompson. New legislation includes the Competition Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998. Recent work of the Law Commissions on Shareholder Remedies and Directors Duties is examined. The ongoing debate on corporate governance is brought up to date with the incorporation of the Greenbury and Hampel Reports and the Combined Code on Corporate Governance and the work of the DTI on reform of company law is explained.

Textbook for students. Deals a.o. with the corporate identity, classification and incorporation of companies, constitution of the company, incorporation of a Limited Company, securities, the company's capital, company distributions, company accounts, insider dealing, minority protection, directors, takeovers and mergers, winding up, insolvency, and the European and inetrnational dimension.

Excerpt from Manual of the Law of Joint Stock Companies in Scotland: With an Appendix Containing "the Companies Acts," Including "the Companies Act, 1900" There have been several handbooks published in England dealing with Company Law, but, so far, no similar book has recently been published in Scotland and it is material to note that the laws of England and Scotland differ in many respects on the subject. The Acts of Parliament regulating J oint Stock Companies, so far as these are applicable to Scotland, are printed in the Appendix and a reference to the more important cases, deciding or bearing on the points dealt with, has been generally given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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