UCL Company Law 2022-23

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: Intro to company law, covering: the definition of a company, the purpose of a company, roles of company law, sources of company law, and the development of the Companies Act 2006. Outlines the UCL company law syllabus 2022-23.

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes on debentures, covering: the definition and context of debentures, role of debentures in corporate finance, fixed and floating charges and their role in debentures, priority and registration of charges in a company law context, book debts in relation to floating charges ...

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: Corporate liability, covering: the three Meridian rules of attribution, avenues for corporate liability (vicarious, primary, secondary, and subsidiary liability), duties of care, corporate criminal liability and statutory intervention

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: Corporate theories, covering: internal and external corporate power, the implications and role of corporate theory (normative and positive), contractarianism (history, definition, theory, arguments, and counterarguments), and stakeholder theory (history, definition, theory...

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: piercing the corporate veil, covering: Salomon v Salomon, theories of veil piercing (agency, sham or facade, evasion of existing legal obligations, assumptions of personal responsibility, single economic units, interests of justice), and more. Contains casenotes on fundame...

Comprehensive and complete lecture notes on all directors' duties under the Companies Act 2006. Referenced in writing first-class company law coursework. Covers theories, arguments, and controversies of Companies Act 2006 director's duties, as well as other more niche points of "sleeping director...

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: Share capital and maintenance, covering: mischief in the maintenance doctrine, rules dictating share capital maintenance under the Companies Act, and distributions and dividends. Provides guiding questions for assessing the maintenance doctrine's relevance. Includes a ...

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: minority shareholder action (3-lecture document) covering minority shareholder rights and shareholder litigation, and their legal, statutory, and practical limitations. Explores definitions and theories of control and fraud. Outlines the process of bringing a derivative cl...

UCL 2022-23 Lecture notes: Organs of the company, covering: the nature of shareholders' interests, matters requiring shareholder approval, shareholder decision making, class rights protection (though little), and the role of directors

Outlines the circumstances in which companies have separate legal personalities vs. circumstances where they do not. Covers case summaries on key cases on separate legal personality, a critical look at Salomon v Salomon, the consequences of separate legal personalities, the creation of limited liabi...

Includes a list of secondary sources on the nature of the firm and company formation. Covers different views of the firm as organising economic activity, forms of business enterprise, company formation (LLPs, limited by guarantee, limited by shares, public vs. private companies), and more.