Directors' Disqualification and Insolvency Restrictions

Company Directors# Disqualifications Act 1986. The nature and purpose of directors# disqualification. Disqualification for unfit conduct: preliminary matters. Establishing unfit conduct (1): general principles. Establishing unfit conduct (2): Specific instances of unfit conduct and period of disqualification. Competition disqualification orders. Procedure and evidence in civil disqualification proceedings. Permission to commence Section 6 proceedings out of time and the impact of delay in civil disqualification. Civil disqualification cases: termination without a full trial. Alternative grounds for disqualification: Sections 2-5 and 10 of the CDDA. Bankruptcy, bankruptcy restrictions and county court administration orders. Disqualification orders and undertakings. Procedure in civil disqualification proceedings after judgment or entry into disqualification undertakings: reviews, variations and appeals. The legal effect of disqualification. Permission to act notwithstanding disqualification. The international dimension # foreign disqualification provision. Appendices.