Chief Operating Officer: Employment-At-Will LAW‚ ETHICS‚ & CORP. GOVERANCE 11/4/2013 First and foremost I would just like to say thank you for the promotion to Chief Operating Officer; I have really been looking forward to this day‚ and I will continue to do my best to successfully build this prestigious corporation! Subsequent to me celebrating my promotion‚ quite a few things have been brought to my attention. We have several issues that need to be handled‚ immediately. In
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What are the possible outcomes? Explain your answers. When looking at this case scenario there seems to be only one possible outcome for this scenario. Jeff was underage at the time of contract and under the law this contract was not valid. Steve the salesperson was completely liable under the law for entering a contract with an underage minor. As a car company representative there is protocol which must be used when entering into any contract and a major part of protocol is to ensure that both parties
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“ No Deals” District Attorney Kathleen Rice proposed the “No Deal” policy in hopes of giving less chances to people who were arrested for drunken driving and that have had previous convictions for the same offense. The punishment for endangering another human being should without a doubt fit the crime. The question is what is the difference between the casual drink and the people who over do it with their alcoholic beverages? Most people would argue that Kathleen Rice is single handedly attacking
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Case law: A promoter is defined in Twycross v Grant (1877) as ‘one who undertakes to form a company with reference to a given project and to set it going and who takes the necessary steps to accomplish that purpose’. The promoter would be the person who undertakes the formation of a company by carrying out the procedures necessary for incorporation‚ person actually interested in the company or professionals who incorporate a company as part of their business. But under Section 4 The Companies Act
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University of Hong Kong School of Law LW3902 The Law Relating to Companies Mid-Semester Coursework Assignment Semester B‚ 2012/2013 Instructions to Students: 1. The assignment is worth 50% of the overall mark for this course. The total word limit is 1‚500 words‚ excluding footnotes and bibliography. You must do a word count and indicate the number of words on the cover page. If a paper exceeds the allowable word limit‚ only the first 1‚500 words will be read and marked. 2. Your answers must be double spaced
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My Company‚ Part 1 BUS322 April 29‚ 2012 My Company Taking the helm of an established company with 10‚000 + employees is a great responsibility; but with an established company like Geico‚ it is an honor and a great opportunity to be responsible for a company that serves customers in the community as well as around the country. This is now my company and I want to make a difference by improving this organization ’s behaviors; which will create a positive impact on overall operations
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programmes (SAPS) by going into business. a) Advise them on the procedures they have to follow in order to register a public company limited by shares. (8 Marks) b) Explain how the procedures would differ from that for forming a private company limited by shares. (4 Marks) c) Discuss the circumstances under which a corporate veil of incorporation may be lifted. (8 Marks) QUESTION TWO a) Explain the role in Trevor Vs Whiteworth
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Your Business‚ Part 1 Assignment #3 Operations Management - BUS515 1. Formulate an operations strategy for your business. The popularity of destination weddings has grown so rapidly that it’s given rises to a whole new industry in of itself. Today entrepreneurs and existing companies are spotting the enormous opportunity in this hot trend and are finding ways to cash in on it. More and more resorts are now specifically catering the destination wedding crowed. Airlines and hotels chains are
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The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844‚ which enabled companies to be formed by "deed of settlement" and the Limited Liability Act 1855‚ established a general incorporation procedure which offered limited liability to shareholders and gave recognition to the company as a separate legal persona. By the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856‚ the deed was replaced with today’s style of constitution‚ namely the registration of the Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association. The contents of these
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which the Court can order that a company be wound up compulsorily. B.H McPherson defines winding-up as a process whereby the assets of a company are collected and realised‚ the resulting proceeds are applied in discharging all its debts and liabilities‚ and any balance which remained after paying the cost and expense of winding-up is distributed among the members according to their rights and interests or otherwise dealt with as the constitution of the company directs. S213 of the 1963 Act sections
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