Rights and Duties of Directors: : Directors' Handbook Series Mark Cardale Bloomsbury Professional

Rights and Duties of Directors

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The new edition of this well-established title (the eighteenth in the series) covers a comprehensive range of topics, from the personal affairs of a director on appointment to the conduct of a company's business and questions of governance and strategy. It gives the reader an understanding of the practical application of all the legal and regulatory issues facing directors, both on a day-to-day operational basis and in relation to questions of importance to long term decision making.
Updates to the previous edition include:
- new material covering the AIM regime and the AIM Rules for companies, and the application of the Market Abuse Regulation to both listed and AIM companies following Brexit
- an updated chapter on insolvency issues, covering the reforms and structures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
- new and updated sections on directors' 'general' duties under the Companies Act 2006 (including s.172) and on directors' disqualification
- reviews of directors' reporting obligations in the Annual Report and otherwise, and of relations with shareholders
The new edition also covers the administrative and accounting obligations of directors under the Companies Act 2006, the role of directors and board decision making, the listing regime and governance arrangements applicable to different types of company, employees and customers, aspects of competition law, requirements concerning the environment, and public company takeovers.

Available as an electronic publication, this e-Book provides easy access to formal guidance notes and other publications of third party institutions and organisations and supports cross referencing in the text.
This book aims to be a compendium handbook with a legal basis and will help the reader to:
- understand the full range of issues which may face directors and those proposing to become directors
- provide information and guidance on matters which boards may need to address in their decision making processes, including appendices detailing some practical checklists and a practical Glossary of terms with electronic links to the text aiding the accessibility of the work to all readers.
- broaden the horizons of those seeking to understand the extent of the legal, regulatory and practical considerations which may need to be considered in companies both large and small

It's an invaluable resource for company directors, company secretaries, and governance and HR professionals in organisations of all sizes, as well as their legal advisers, in house lawyers, company law practitioners, and financial advisers.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

1. The nature of office of director
2. Directors, the Board and the company secretary
3. Directors' rights
4. Statutory statement of directors' general duties
5. Breach of duty by a director
6. Statutory duties of directors
7. Accounting and financial responsibilities of directors
8. Directors' duties and the members
9. Directors' duties in public and listed companies
10. Directors and corporate governance
11. Directors' duties and employment issues
12. Directors' duties and the environment
13. Duties and the customer
14. Directors, creditors and insolvency
Appendix 1 Checklist of matters to include in a director's service contract
Appendix 2 Extract from ICSA guidance: a sample non-executive director's appointment letter (Guidance Note 111214)
Appendix 3 CDDA 1986 Schedule 1: Matters for Determining Unfitness of Directors
Appendix 4 Statutory registers
Appendix 5 Inspection of company records
Appendix 6 Companies Act 2006: statutory forms and fi ling periods
Appendix 7 Schedule of recommended retention periods
Appendix 8 Retention and disposal of records
Appendix 9 General notice by director of interest in any contract of the company
Appendix 10 Minute recording a director's disclosure of interest
Appendix 11 Extract from Regulation 5 of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008
Appendix 12 Directors' responsibilities: statement for a non- publicly traded company preparing financial statements under UK GAAP
Appendix 13 Summary of companies' accounts fi ling obligations
Appendix 14 Qualification as a very small, small or medium-sized group or company
Appendix 15 Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 Schedule 1 Regulation 3(4)(d)
Appendix 16 Wording of special resolution amending the Articles of Association of a private company to provide power to purchase own shares
Appendix 17 Notice of redemption of shares
Appendix 18 Summary of procedural requirements where resolutions of private companies are passed by written resolution
Appendix 19 Special notice to company of resolution to remove a director
Appendix 20 Draft format for a written resolution
Appendix 21 Wording of a directors' responsibility statement
Appendix 22 Modern Slavery Statement Example
Appendix 23 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Terms of Reference – Remuneration Committee
Appendix 24 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Terms of Reference – Audit Committee
Appendix 25 Basic contents of the written statement of employment
Appendix 26 Sample disciplinary and grievance policy (a modified extract from the Acas guide: Discipline and grievances at work, March 2015)
Appendix 27 Example of a whistleblowing policy
Appendix 28 HSE's health and safety leadership checklist
Appendix 29 Punishment of offences under IA 1986
Appendix 30 Schedule A1 to IA 1986 – Punishment of offences whilst a voluntary arrangement is in force
Appendix 31 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Terms of Reference – Nomination Committee
Appendix 32 Extract from the ICSA Guidance on Induction of Directors (May 2015)
Appendix 33 Extract from ICSA Guidance on Matters Reserved for the Board

Product details

Published	10 Feb 2022
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	18th
Extent	784
ISBN	9781526519672
Imprint	Bloomsbury Professional
Series	Directors' Handbook Series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing