Principles Of Company Law

Company law is a growth area which also reaches into many other areas of law. New areas include auditor's negligence, investment law and the FSA and administration orders. Each is explored in this volume, but the aim is not to do them full justice. Rather, it is to provide a full analysis of specified areas of company law: the company and other business organizations; types of company; setting up the company; managing the company; reconstituting the company; supervision of company law; the social responsibilities of companies; and the debate of the Cadbury Report and the Greenbury Committee Report.

Aimed at undergraduate law students, this work provides concise yet thorough coverage of the main principles of company law, including the legal definition, liabilities and responsibilities of a company.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Covers issues in company law, aiming to give the reader a concise explanation of each topic, incorporating the reasons for the rules and regulations of company law. The book also offers a summary of the rules. Important cases are analyzed and discussed, and likely future developments explored.

The third edition of this popular and established textbook has been extensively revised, expanded and updated with new decisions and legislation. The book has been significantly extended by the inclusion of three new chapters on Europe, personal liability of directors and disqualification. Company Law: Fundamental Principles provides a framework of the general principles of company law around which the student can build by further reference to cases and materials books or to law reports and statutes. Overall it provides a concise but detailed coverage of the main principles of company law for undergraduate students. The book is also a valuable introductory text for postgraduate studies in company law.Company Law: Fundamental Principles is aimed at students taking options on company law on LLB programmes and combined/joint honours programmes, the University of London (External) degree in Laws, ILEX courses and undergraduates in accounting and economics taking a company law option.Steve Griffin is Reader in Law at the University of Wolverhampton. He was formerly a Lecturer in Law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. ISBN 0 273 64221 9Longman