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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Company law"”.
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Theorising Irish company law: locating Irish company law within entity theory
… entity theory as a framework for studying Irish company law and indeed other company law regimes that are built on the doctrines of limited liability and corporate personality. Third, it will show that Irish company law and most corporate law frameworks enable and support managerial discretion …
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Company law and the interests of company employees
The present state of law in South Africa appears to create a dichotomy between labour lawyers on the one hand, and commercial lawyers applying their revered company law principles, on the other. This dissertation will deal with some aspects of law which create tension between the two and discuss …
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Corporate opportunity doctrine: A South African company law perspective
… officers and controlling shareholders of a company must not take for themselves any business opportunity that could benefit the company. However, this restriction does not apply to every member of a corporation. It is rather limited to those who could be said to stand in a fiduciary …
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The impact of EEC directives on Maltese company law
… Third and Sixth Directives would have on Maltese Company Law. No study is made of the other Directives such as the Fourth and Seventh Directives which are referred to as the accounting Directives. Nor does this thesis set out to examine the proposed Directives (which are of Company Law interest) …
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The status and responsibilities of the liquidator in company law
… liquidator's liability under local and foreign law is dealt with in Chapter five and the thesis is concluded by a chapter on the liquidator's termination of office and the consequences of vacancy in this office.
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Company law in Zambia-its impact on members creditors and workers
The title of this dissertation is Company Law in Zambia : Its Impact on Members, Creditors and Workers. The dissertation is concerned mainly with company law in Zambia and attempts to examine the nature of this law especially as it affects the members, creditors and workers. It seeks to show that …
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Incomplete company law reform : the treasury shares question in South Africa
One of the paradoxes in company law is the phenomenon of treasury shares. Their complex nature coupled with the risks attached to their use has rendered them problematic and unnecessary in modern company law. Refuting arguments stated against the use of treasury shares, this paper aims to build a …
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Offers of compromises and schemes of arrangements in South African Company Law
… to minimize his risk by trying to take over a company with a scheme of arrangement applying section 311 of the South African Companies Act, which gives him the necessary· tool to takeover a 'clean' company without unknown creditors. That means that such a scheme must be a compromise or …
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Offers of compromises and schemes of arrangements in South African company law
… to minimize his risk by trying to take over a company with a scheme of arrangement applying section 311 of the South African Companies Act, which gives him the necessary tool to takeover a 'clean' company without unknown creditors. That means that such a scheme must be a compromise or …
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Facilitating Corporate Social Responsibility through Company Law: A Middle-Ground Proposition for Kuwait.
… enacted to underscore the importance of a company’s stakeholder obligations and responsibilities that extend beyond its corporate constituencies. However, the current CSR jurisprudence is carefully evaluated in Kuwaiti company law given the lack of CSR-related legislative provisions in the …
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Exploring The Concept of Unfairly Prejudicial Conduct as A Minority Shareholder Remedy Under the South African Company Law
… Generally, persons associate to form a company, but not all those that form a company are involved in the management of a company. Instead, management decisions are taken by the board of directors, and in some cases by the majority shareholders. It is a well-known principle that when one …
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Promoting labour relations stability under company law: a critical analysis of internal corporate social responsibility in South Africa
… interests as falling within the domain of labour law, collective bargaining and the contract of employment. This approach has prevailed throughout decades of labour strife and unrest, as the adversarial nature of labour law in South Africa and the political history of the country have influenced …
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Company law and the protection of creditors' interests: from capital maintenance to solvency and liquidity and beyond - a South African perspective
Company law in South Africa has recently been subject to an extensive review which culminated in the passing of a new act, being the Companies Act No. 71 of 2008 (hereinafter 'the new companies Act or 'new Act'). The new Act has not yet come into effect but officials at the Companies and …
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From the capital maintenance rule to the solvency test: some thoughts on the new approach to creditor protection in Malawian company law
In July, 2013 Malawi enacted a new Companies Act [Act No. 15 of 2013] replacing the old Companies Act 19 of 1984. The Companies Act, 1984 was basically an adoption of the English Companies Act, 1948 and in line with the English law, it regulated distributions through the classical capital …
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The litigation between Greenhalgh and the Mallard family, [1941-1950]: and its influence on company law in England, Australia and South Africa
… his co-shareholders in the Arderne Cinema Company, and thus began a series of cases which ended with a Court of Appeal Judgment handed down on,10 November 1950. During the almost ten-year period of the litigation, seven actions were brought by Mr Greenhalgh, five of which were taken on …
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Towards a more flexible structure of the share capital - A comparison of the company law of South Africa and Switzerland with regard to current debates and developments in the EU
… valuation will take place whether South African Company Law can serve as role model for Swiss Company Law and whether the American Revised Model Business Corporation Act still provides the basis for further developments in South Africa.
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In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company: A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model
… dissertation is concerned with the theory of the company. It draws on three different disciplinary perspectives, namely those of law, economics and management, and on qualitative-empirical evidence. The aim is to evaluate the shareholder primacy model which underlies the current orthodoxy in …
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A critical analysis of Swaziland's Companies Bill of 2004
'Company Law provides the legal basis for one of the most important institutions organizing and galvanizing the economy, corporate business entities'. Professor Kahn Freund wrote; 'Business organization is in a constant state of flux, and the law cannot hope to keep abreast of developments if it …
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Employee participation and voice in companies : a legal perspective
Recently, South African company law underwent a dramatic overhaul through the introduction of the Companies Act 71 of 2008. Central to company law is the promotion of corporate governance: companies no longer are accountable to their shareholders only but to society at large. Leaders should direct …
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