Directors’ Duties

The book provides an analysis of the general duties of directors contained in Chapter 2 Part 10 of the Companies Act 2006, addressing aspects of the law that are highly relevant to such duties.

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Directors' Duties provides an analysis of the general duties of directors contained in Chapter 2, Part 10 of the Companies Act 2006. This new edition seeks to address case-law and other developments as well as including some discussion of recent academic scholarship. The work has been thoroughly updated with some chapters significantly revised and expanded 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 recent Court of Appeal decisions, 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