Company Meetings and Resolutions

Stimulating, readable and authoritative, this text is an invaluable guide to an often-complicated subject and should be required reading for every lawyer or adviser on the law, practice and procedures relating to company meetings and resolutions.

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Leslie Kosmin QC has been a barrister in practice in the field of Company Law at Erskine Chambers from 1977 - 2011. He was called to the Bar in 1976 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1994. He has presided as a Deputy High Court Judge and is a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple. He is Affiliated Lecturer and Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor in Practice in the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Catherine Roberts is a barrister at Erskine Chambers specialising in company law litigation and advice, corporate finance, financial services, and insolvency. She studied law at the University of Cambridge and was called to the Bar in 1986, a year after which she joined Erskine Chambers.

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The third edition of the leading authority on the law of company meetings provides a detailed and thorough analysis of the relevant legislation and case law. The work is now available in hardback and as a digital pack which includes a digital version suitable for PC, Mac, Android, iPad or iPhone to ensure that you have access wherever you are.

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• 1A MEETINGS OF MEMBERS

• 1: The Concept of a Meeting and Quorum

• 2: Notice of Meetings of Members

• 3: Circulars to Members and Members' Statements

• 4: The Annual General Meeting

• 5: Meetings Requested by Members

• 6: Meetings of Members Ordered by the Court

• 7: The Role of the Chairman

• 8: Proxies and Corporate Representatives

• 9: Voting

• 10: Exercise of Members' Rights

• 11: Resolutions and Amendments

• 12: Adjournment

• 13: Class Meetings and Class Consents

• 14: Meetings for the Purposes of Schemes of Arrangement

• 1B WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS AND THE DUOMATIC PRINCIPLE

• 15: Written Resolutions of Private Companies

• 16: Informal Decisions and the Duomatic Principle

• 1C MINUTES

• 17: Minutes of General Meetings and Decisions of Members

• 1D COMPANY COMMUNICATIONS

• 18: The Company Communications Provisions, Including Electronic Communications

• 2 MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS

• 19: Introduction to Directors' Meetings, Written Resolutions and Directors' Duties

• 20: Notice, Agenda and Quorum for Meetings of Directors

• 21: The Role of the Chairman at Meetings of Directors

• 22: Minutes of Meetings of Directors

• 3 COMMENTARY ON THE PROVISIONS OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006, PART 13, SECTIONS 281 TO 361

• 23: Commentary on the Provisions of the Companies Act 2006, Part 13, Sections 281 to 361

• 4 ANNOTATION OF 1985 TABLE A REGULATIONS RELATING TO MEETINGS AND DECISIONS OF MEMBERS AND PROCEEDINGS AND DECISIONS OF DIRECTORS

• 24: Annotation of 1985 Table A Regulations Relating to Meetings and Decisions of Members and Proceedings and Decisions of Directors

• 5 COMMENTARY ON THE COMPANIES ACT 2006 MODEL ARTICLES RELATING TO MEETINGS AND DECISIONS OF MEMBERS AND PROCEEDINGS AND DECISIONS OF DIRECTORS

• 25: Commentary on the Companies Act 2006 Model Articles