Paper F4 (ENG) CHAPTER Corporate and business law 8 Companies and legal personality Contents 1 2 3 The features of a limited company Types of company Advantages and disadvantages of incorporation: the veil of incorporation © EWP Go to www.emilewoolfpublishing.com for Q/As‚ Notes & Study Guides 199 Paper F4: Corporate and business law (English) The features of a limited company Comparison of companies with other forms of business The meaning of separate legal personality
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Sample Tutorial Answers (HBL221N Company Law) To answer all legal questions‚ students are to follow the essential steps of: (1) Identification of the issues in the questions; (2) State the relevant laws that can be used to resolve the issues in the questions; (3) Application of the relevant laws to the facts in the questions to resolve the issues in the questions (i.e. arguments); and (4) Conclusion based on arguments in Point (3). Your conclusion must resolve your issues in Point (1). NOTE:
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else at law - Use own to resources to provide skill‚ labor‚ capital‚ and other resources to run the business - Unlimited liabilities - Registered under Registration of Business Act 1956 ii. Partnership - Exist when two or more persons pool their skills‚ labor‚ capital and other resources together to form a business jointly - Under Partnership Act 1961 - Applied English Court decision iii. Company -
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legal effect of common law and the Companies Act 1965 on pre-incorporation contracts. Pre-corporation contract is one which is entered into when the Company is in the process of being incorporated but is not yet completed it. At common law such contracts were held to be void‚ as the company is not yet in existence. - Newborne v Sensolid Ltd. In the common law effect‚ Pre-incorporation contracts cannot‚ in theory‚ be made by the company or by its promoter since the company or the principal does not
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UNIVERSITY LGST201 COMPANY LAW Topic 1 - Introduction to the Company General Reading: Woon‚ chapters 1 and 2 (you may omit paras 1.73 – 1.1041). Note that Woon references below are to the Revised 3rd edition (2009) (corresponding references to the 3rd edition (2005) are footnoted). Legend - Very important. Must know! - Less important (but doesn’t mean can ignore!) 1. General Themes The company is essentially an artificial person created by law. What this “person”
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the loan contract between ABC bank and Sambal Pty Ltd is invalid. State the law: Section 140 of the corporations act states that: “A company’s constitution (if any) and any replaceable rules that apple to the company have effect as a contract: (a) Between the company and each member; and (b) Between the company and each director and company secretary; and (c) Between a member and each other member; Apply the law: According to section 140‚ a company’s constitution is only an internal governance
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Faculty of Business and Management BBUS2103 Company Law January 2013 Companies Act 1965 Section 181: Member’s Remedy Name: Mohd Afiq bin Sahar NRIC No: 871226-43-5677 Matric No: 871226435677001 Pages 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………….3 2. Example of oppressive‚ disregard of members’ interest and unfairly prejudicial or unfairly discriminatory conduct………………………………………5 Diversion of corporate assets or opportunity………………………………...5 Diversion of profits.…………………………………………………………
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Introduction The issues in the case of ‘Hawthorn Blood Supplies Co Ltd’‚ which is a listed company on Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)‚ are concerned protection of shareholder’s and creditor’s interests. We will identify possible legal issues in the relation to the Corporation Act 2001 and discuss whether they have been any breaches of relevant common law rules and statutory provisions in relation to ‘capital maintenance’‚ ‘share buy-backs’‚ financial assistance’ and ‘payment of dividends’.
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mendelsohn@hud.ac.uk • • • • • Corporate personality Artificial‚ separate legal personality Registration at Companies House Limited liability Salomon • Issues arising from separate‚ artificial legal personality A. PROMOTERS • Background • Definition - no statutory definition - 2 common law definitions • Twycross v Grant (1877) 2 CPD – someone who “undertakes to form a company with reference to a given project‚ and to set it going and… takes the necessary steps to accomplish that purpose”
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