Directors’ Duties provides an analysis of the general duties of directors contained in Chapter 2, Part 10 of the Companies Act 2006.
The new edition is completely updated to include:-
Greater discussion of the issues of the limitation of actions, derivative actions and relief
Examination of the UK Supreme Court decisions in Williams v Central Nigeria Bank, Eclairs Group Ltd v JKX Oil & Gas plc, AIB Group (GB) v Redler and FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC
Examination of the Privy Council decision in Central Bank of Ecuador v Conticorp SA and the recent decisions of Court of Appeal, such as in Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding, Goldtrail Travel Ltd v Aydin, Novoship (UK) Ltd v Nikitin and Smithton Ltd v Naggar,
Consideration of some superior court decisions in other common law jurisdictions, such as that of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in Chen Wai Too v Poon Ka Man Jason, the Australian Federal Court in ASIC v Mariner and the New Zealand Court of Appeal in Morgenstern v Jeffreys.