Company Directors' Duties and Conflicts of Interest

Dr Langford tackles all these areas not only in depth but also in breadth. She draws together the law in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, and New Zealand. She is right to do so. I can say from my own experience that the judgments of the courts in these countries have a profound effect on the way in which similar cases are argued and decided in the other countries ... Given the universal nature of the problems and our common legal heritage, this is exactly as it should be. For all these reasons, as well as the scholarship demonstrated in each chapter, I warmly welcome this book as an important addition to the learning available to judges, practitioners, and academics concerned with this area of the law.

Auteur
Dr Rosemary Teele Langford is an Associate Professor with the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and teaches a number of subject areas including company law and corporate governance, having previously practised with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters). She edits the directors' duties section of the Company and Securities Law Journal (Thomson Reuters) and has significant expertise in the area of directors' duties, having published and presented on this topic extensively.

Texte du rabat

The most detailed multi-jurisdictional work on directors' conflicts drawing together relevant case law, codes and statutory regulation covering the law applying to directors of companies incorporated under the UK Companies Acts with extensive reference to the law in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Contenu

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Theory and Rationale

• 3: Definitions and Interaction between Duties

• 4: Conflicts of Interest

• 5: Conflicts of Duties

• 6: Multiple Directorships (including Competing Directorships)

• 7: Disclosure and Declaration of Interests

• 8: Corporate Opportunities

• 9: Related Party Regimes and other Specific Statutory Regimes

• 10: The Role of Other Duties

• 11: Authorisation

• 12: Consequences of Breach

• 13: Conclusion