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Examinable Topics as at 4th March 2022

Week 1-Course Introduction, English Companies and their Legal Personality

Slides-Course Introduction, English Companies and their Legal Personality

Lecture 1-discussion question from the slides and answer

Lecture 1-Course Introduction, English Companies and their Legal Personality

Lecture 1 E-activity

Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006)

Insolvency Act 1986

Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020

Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986

Rating (Coronovirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021

Chandler v Cape plc [2012] 3 All ER 640

Prest v Petrodel Resources [2013] 2AC 415

Rossendale Borough Council Hurstwood Properties [2021] UKSC 16

Salomon v A Salomon and Co Ltd [1895-99] All ER Rep 33

Mujih article (2016)

Petrin article (2013)

Upadhyay article (2015)

Model articles for a private company limited by shares (Schedule 1, Companies Act 2006)

Week 2-English Companies-Management

Lecture 2 slides English Companies-Management

Lecture-English Companies-Management

Lecture 2 Post-lecture questions

Bhullar v Bhullar [2003] EWCH Civ 424 (transcript of judgment)

Bushell v Faith [1970} AC 1099

Re Noble Vintners Ltd [2019] EWHC 2806 (Ch)

Re Purpoint Ltd [1991] BCLC 491

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v holland 1 WLR 2793

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Deverell [2001] Ch 340

Smithton v Naggar [2015] 1 WLR 189

Ultraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding [2005] EWHC 1638

West Mercia Safetywear Ltd v Dodd [1988] BCLC 590

Prentice, D and Payne, J ‘The Corporate Opportunity Doctrine’ (2004) 120 LQR 198

Week 3-English Companies-Shares and Minority Shareholder Protection

Lecture 3-slides

Lecture 3-Shares and Minority Shareholder Protection

Lecture 3-Post lecture questions

Cumbrian Newspapers Group Ltd v Cumberland &amp; Westmoreland Herald Newspapers &amp; Printing Co Ltd [1987] Ch 1

Dimbula Valley (Ceylon) Tea Co Ltd [1961] Ch 353

Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries [1972] 2 All ER 492

Edwards v Halliwell [1950] 2 All ER 1064

O'Neill v Phillips [1999] 2 BCLC 1

Re Saltdean Estate Co Ltd [1968] 1WLR 1844

VB Football Assets v Blackpool Football Club [2017] HC

Zavahir v Shankleman [2017] B.C.C. 500

Gray article 'The statutory derivative claim: an outmoded superfluousness?'

Sykes article 'The continuing paradox: a critique of minority shareholder and derivative claims under the Companies Act 2006'

Trevor Smith note on the Blackpool Football case

Week 4-English Companies-Loans and Security and Corporate Collapse

Lecture 4-slides

Lecture 4 English Companies-Loans and Security and Corporate Collapse

Lecture 4-Post-lecture questions

Independent Automatic Sales v Knowles and Foster [1962] 1WLR 974

Re Airbase (UK) Ltd [2008] 1 WLR 1516

Re Atlantic Computer Systems No1 [1991] BCLC 606

Re Brightlife [1986] 3 All ER 673

Re Farrow’s Bank Ltd [1921] All ER 511

Cumbrian Newspapers Group Ltd v Cumberland & Westmoreland Herald Newspapers & Printing Co Ltd [1987] Ch 1

Kotzur, W and others 'Lending and taking security in Germany:overview' Simmons & Simmons LLP

Grauke, B. and Eiden, M.The “Stabilization and Restructuring Framework of Companies Act”, 2021 (StaRUG) Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Cheng-Han Tan, Jiangyu Wang and Christian Hofmann, Piercing the Corporate Veil: 'Historical, Theoretical & Comparative Perspectives' 16 Berkeley Bus L.J. 140 (2019)