Corporate governance and the duties of company directors
By: editor, Ian M. Ramsay
Publisher: Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Faculty of Law, The University of Melbourne
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Corporate governance; Law and legislation; Directors of corporations; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The corporate governance debate and the role of directors' duties / Ian M. Ramsay; title: The defining tension in corporate governance in America / E. Norman Veasey; title: The role of corporate governance practices in the development of legal principles relating to directors / Alex Chernov; title: Corporate governance, corporate law and global forces / Michael Kirby; title: Directors' duties: the governing principles / David Malcolm; title: The duty of care of company directors in Australia and New Zealand / John H. Farrar; title: The duty of care of directors: does it depend on the swing of the pendulum? / Robert Baxt; title: Directors' statutory duties of honesty and propriety / Michael J. Whincop; title: The role of nominee directors and the liability of their appointors / E.W. Thomas; title: Shadow director and other third party liability for corporate activity / Robyn Carroll; title: Safe harbours or sleepy hollows: does Australia need a statutory business judgement rule? / Paul Redmond; title: The perspective of the Australian securities commission on the enforcement of directors' duties and the role of the courts / Alan Cameron.