This is the complete a - z note on the company law topic, you just have to go through it once and you can easily attempt the question and get A ++ grade in finals
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"When companies are close to insolvency, the directors
must prioritise the interests of creditors. If they fail to do
so, they are likely to be disqualified from being directors in
the future, and personally liable for any unpaid debts."
Discuss.
For the purpose addressing the issue in the question , we need to
critically examine the duty owned by a director under the company
law act 2006, prior to 2007 , duties which director owns to the
company were stated in case law, and comprised of duty to act in
good faith and exercise power for purpose they are conferred for (s
171), duty to act in a manner to promote success of company (s
172), duty to exercise reasonable care(174), and independent
judgement (s 173), and to avoid conflict (175) and duty to not
accept bribe from third party (176) lastly there's a duty to declare
interest in purposed transaction or arrangement (s 177).
Its evident from s 171 (1) that duty is not owned directly to
shareholder rather then to company as it has been previously
affirmed in case of Re A company, but under exceptional
circumstances the duty might be owned directly to the shareholder
(peskin v anderson) , even it the case the director do not own duty
directly to minority shareholder , yet they will be able to bring action
under the principle of foss v harbottle.
My essay shall discuss s 172 of the ca 2006, and under this the
concept of insolvency of creditor s 172(3) will be center of our
discussion , however we will also discuss that whether in
circumstances if director failed to do so,he will be liable ? and the
breach s 213 and 214 will be discussed too
As it’s the duty of director to act in a way in which he must be
consider to be in good faith, and it would be most likely to promote
the success of company in order to give benefit to the company's
member as a whole (section 172 (1) 2006 act ) among the other
matter this duty under s 172, there are six subsidiary matters
which a director must give regard to, but for the pour pose to
address the statement above s 172 (3) needs to be discussed
which states that in any circumstances , in order to promote
success of company , if any rule of law requires a director to act in
accordance to the interest of creditor .
The term rule of law clarifies that in circumstances where its held
that is the duty of the director to promote the success of company ,
this must mus be substituted by duty to consider interest of
creditors.
In the company in process to its insolvency , the interest of the
creditors must take priority over the shareholder. The specific
problem lies with the period in between , as the west mercia
saftywear (in liquidation ) it was held that creditors interest prevail
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