Rights and duties of directors 2018/19
By: edited by Martha Bruce, FCIS
Edition: 17edition.
Series: Directors' handbook series; Director's handbook series (Bloomsbury Professional)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781526506719
Subjects: Directors of corporations; Legal status, laws; Corporation law
Description: "Rights and Duties of Directors 2018/19 is a highly practical and comprehensive publication which clearly sets out the rights and powers of directors and their duties. Highly practical and comprehensive, it details each and every duty in relation to the core administration, compliance and disclosure requirements of company law and other closely associated legislation. The 17th edition is fully revised and updated to take account of the wide ranging changes and new case law since the 16th edition."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. The nature of office of director; title: 2. Directors, the Board and the company secretary; title: 3. Directors' rights; title: 4. Statutory statement of directors' general duties; title: 5. Breach of duty by a director; title: 6. Statutory duties of directors; title: 7. Accounting and financial responsibilities of directors; title: 8. Directors' duties and the members; title: 9. Directors' duties in public and listed companies; title: 10. Directors and corporate governance; title: 11. Directors' duties and employment issues; title: 12. Directors' duties and the environment; title: 13. Duties and the customer; title: 14. Directors, creditors and insolvency; title: Appendix 1 Checklist of matters to include in a director's service contract; title: Appendix 2 Extract from ICSA guidance: a sample non-executive director's appointment letter (Guidance Note 111214); title: Appendix 3 CDDA 1986 Schedule 1: Matters for Determining Unfitness of Directors; title: Appendix 4 Statutory registers; title: Appendix 5 Inspection of company records; title: Appendix 6 Companies Act 2006: statutory forms and fi ling periods; title: Appendix 7 Schedule of recommended retention periods; title: Appendix 8 Retention and disposal of records; title: Appendix 9 General notice by director of interest in any contract of the company; title: Appendix 10 Minute recording a director's disclosure of interest; title: Appendix 11 Extract from Regulation 5 of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008; title: Appendix 12 Directors' responsibilities: statement for a non- publicly traded company preparing financial statements under UK GAAP; title: Appendix 13 Summary of companies' accounts fi ling obligations; title: Appendix 14 Qualification as a very small, small or medium-sized group or company; title: Appendix 15 Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 Schedule 1 Regulation 3(4)(d); title: Appendix 16 Wording of special resolution amending the Articles of Association of a private company to provide power to purchase own shares; title: Appendix 17 Notice of redemption of shares; title: Appendix 18 Summary of procedural requirements where resolutions of private companies are passed by written resolution; title: Appendix 19 Special notice to company of resolution to remove a director; title: Appendix 20 Draft format for a written resolution; title: Appendix 21 Wording of a directors' responsibility statement; title: Appendix 22 Modern Slavery Statement Example; title: Appendix 23 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Terms of Reference - Remuneration Committee; title: Appendix 24 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Terms of Reference - Audit Committee; title: Appendix 25 Basic contents of the written statement of employment; title: Appendix 26 Sample disciplinary and grievance policy (a modified extract from the Acas guide: Discipline and grievances at work, March 2015); title: Appendix 27 Example of a whistleblowing policy; title: Appendix 28 HSE's health and safety leadership checklist; title: Appendix 29 Punishment of offences under IA 1986; title: Appendix 30 Schedule A1 to IA 1986 - Punishment of offences whilst a voluntary arrangement is in force; title: Appendix 31 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Terms of Reference - Nomination Committee; title: Appendix 32 Extract from the ICSA Guidance on Induction of Directors (May 2015); title: Appendix 33 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Matters Reserved for the Board.