Partnership Law

Mark Blackett-Ord and Sarah Haren practice at the Chancery Bar and are members of 5 Stone Buildings.

Chapter 1 Partnership in general
Chapter 2 Whether there is a partnership and whether a person is a partner
Chapter 3 Capacity
Chapter 4 Illegality
Chapter 5 Holding out
Chapter 6 Sub-partnerships and group partnerships
Chapter 7 The partnership agreement
Chapter 8 Partnership assets and liabilities
Chapter 9 Partnership capital and partners’ capital
Chapter 10 The partnership share
Chapter 11 The duty of good faith
Chapter 12 Internal management
Chapter 13 Discrimination
Chapter 14 Internal partnership dispute and its remedies
Chapter 15 The enforcement of remedies between partners
Chapter 16 Dissolution, retirement and expulsion without court order
Chapter 17 Dissolution by court order
Chapter 18 The effect of dissolution and retirement
Chapter 19 The firm and outsiders
Chapter 20 How partners bear the firm’s liabilities
Chapter 21 Litigation by and against outsiders
Chapter 22 Insolvency – winding up and similar procedures
Chapter 23 The insolvent firm’s debts
Chapter 24 Limited partnerships
Chapter 25 Limited liability partnerships
Appendix A: Partnership Act 1890
Appendix B: Limited Partnerships Act 1907
Appendix C: Limited Partnerships (Forms) Rules 2009
Appendix D: Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Sensitive Words and Expressions) Regulations 2009
Appendix E: Partnership (Accounts) Regulations 2008
Appendix F: Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994
Appendix G: Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000
Appendix H: Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations 2001
Appendix I: Law of Partnership Act 1865 (repealed)
Appendix J: British Venture Capital Association statement 26 May 1987