Company Law Update

Overview
This course is a discussion of the main statutory and case law developments in the past year which are relevant to small and medium sized businesses and is updated to around 2 weeks before the course. The content focuses on the liabilities of directors, and also looks at issues around insolvency, whether of the company or of its customers. Topics will depend to some extent upon what developments have taken place in the months leading up to the course date, but will include some or all of the following:

Key Features

• new developments in directors’ duties and personal liability, including
• the System Building Services case and fiduciary duties after insolvency
• the first ‘class action’ against directors by shareholders - Sharp v Blank – what does it mean?
• fiduciary duty to shareholders on an MBO
• statutory liability round up – health and safety and bribery cases
• shareholder matters, including
• the Duomatic principle of informal assent
• getting written resolutions right
• dividends – recent cases
• CEO impersonation fraud – can the company sue?
• developments in pre-pack administrations – proposed changes to the law
• Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act 2020 – main principles
• brief summary of Money Laundering Regulations 2020
• impact of Brexit on UK Company Law

What will I get out of it?
The course will provide a practical and useful overview of the most important legal developments in company law, enabling directors and those supporting the board to understand their legal responsibilities.

Who should attend?
Accountants in practice and directors and accountants working in companies

Louise Dunford LLM, LLB Barrister, Cert Ed
Director LDC Training Ltd, Consultant for CompleteHR Ltd

Louise has been continuously involved in training and consultancy since 1987 and is a qualified barrister. She provides advice and assistance to employers through a consultancy company, CompleteHR Ltd, and has also engaged in CPD training for most of the national accountancy training bodies and district societies in the UK for many years.

Louise is involved in management training, particularly in employment and HR, for many large multinational and national commercial companies. She has also worked as an occasional associate senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, mainly on the MBA, MA Personnel Management and MA Business Law. She has published academic papers in refereed journals, chiefly on employment status and corporate manslaughter.

3 CPD units

ACCA members can use this learning to meet their CPD requirements provided it is relevant to their career. If the event contributes to general knowledge and skills, it should be recorded as non-verifiable CPD. If the learning can be applied in the workplace, it will contribute to verifiable CPD. 1 hour of learning = 1 unit of CPD.

Fee: £60 + VAT  (£72)

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This event is organised by ACCA Professional Courses.

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