Company Law is the perfect text for business students studying law. It’s written in an accessible and interesting style, and most importantly, it places the company and the relative legal concepts within the context of business studies, encouraging students to use problem solving methodologies to cement their learning.

• Includes cases studies, examples, critical reflection questions, key definitions in the margins, diagrams, flowcharts, and end-of-chapter study questions to illustrate concepts and encourage different forms of learning.
• Easy to navigate with headings signposting the way enabling students to easily answer their most common questions about company law.

PART A: NATURE OF THE COMPANY
1. Introduction
2. Regulations
3. Corporate type
4. Registration and constitutions

PART B: BASIC OPERATION OF THE COMPANY
5. Promoters and outsiders
6. Capital
7. Members

PART C: MANAGEMENT AND STEWARDSHIP OF THE COMPANY
8. Corporate governance
9. Directors’ duties
10. Members’ remedies

PART D: WIDER COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COMPANY
11. Accountability
12. Marketplace activity and regulation

PART E: RESTRUCTURING AND FINALISATION OF THE COMPANY
13. Creditors
14. Insolvency, financial difficulty and other arrangements
15. Alternatives for insolvent companies
16. Voluntary administration
17. Liquidation

David Morrison – Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Queensland

Colin Anderson – Associate Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology