Legal Skills: Company Secretarial Practice - Part 4

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Course Overview

Constant changes in the law, together with the Cadbury, Greenbury, Hampel, Turnbull and Higgs Reports, the 2006 reissue of the Financial Reporting Council 'Combined Code' on Corporate Governance, and its updated guidance on internal control, together withthe revised Listing Rules and new Disclosure Rules, exert growing pressure on everyone involved in company administration. The Combined Code provides that directors should continually update their skills and knowledge. This course will, in particular, be of interest and value to company directors, and those who advise them, looking for guidance on their many duties and responsibilities.

Audience

Company Secretaries and their staff.

Course Outline

DIRECTORS

• Introduction
• The nature of companies and company directorship
• Direction and management
• Board relationships with various parties

DIRECTORS' DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Common law duties
• Companies Act duties
• Listed companies
• Insider dealing and market about -Model Code
• Insolvent companies
• Survival checklist

MEETINGS

• Discipline and formality
• Chairman
• Quorum
• Resolutions
• Notice and agenda
• Proxies and representatives
• Urgent decisions
• Minutes

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

• Cadbury, Greenbury, Hampel, Turnbull and Higgs reports and the Combined Code on Corporate Governance
• Matters reserved to the board
• Independent professional advice
• Role of the company secretary
• Internal control
• Committees of the board
• Directors' remuneration and contracts

Legal Skills: Company Secretarial Practice - Part 4 / LE-CSP4