Module
Corporate & Business Law
CORPORATE AND BUSINESS LAW
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- 01What law does in business
- 02The Irish court ladder
- 03The Constitution at the summit
- 04Precedent: the rule inside the case
- 05Acts, Bills and delegated rules
- 06Reading what the Oireachtas meant
- 07EU law in an Irish problem
- 08The anatomy of a simple contract
- 09Offer or invitation to negotiate?
- 10How an offer dies
- 11Acceptance must mirror the offer
- 12The bargain called consideration
- 13Sufficient, not necessarily equal
- 14The contract binds its parties
- 15Did the parties mean legal business?
- 16Term or sales talk?
- 17Conditions, warranties and unnamed terms
- 18Can the small print exclude liability?
- 19How contracts come to an end
- 20Breach and the common-law response
- 21Damages measure the protected loss
- 22When money is not enough
- 23Tort protects duties beyond agreement
- 24Passing off protects business goodwill
- 25Negligence: duty, breach and another person's act
- 26The chain from breach to loss
- 27Defending a negligence claim
- 28Accountants, auditors and careful reliance
- 29Employee or contractor?
- 30The employment bargain in writing
- 31Ending employment with notice
- 32Summary and constructive dismissal
- 33Wrongful dismissal is contractual
- 34Was the dismissal fair?
- 35Putting the employee right
- 36A role disappears, not a person
- 37The agent acts for another
- 38Creating agency
- 39Actual and apparent authority
- 40Who is liable on the agent's deal?
- 41General and limited partnerships
- 42When a partnership begins
- 43Every partner may bind the firm
- 44Partnership debts reach the partners
- 45Dissolving the partnership
- 46Choose the business vehicle
- 47Limited liability is not legal personality
- 48Irish company types and size bands
- 49The company is a person of its own
- 50When the veil may be lifted
- 51Promoters before the company exists
- 52The contract signed too early
- 53From application to incorporation
- 54The company's legal memory
- 55The constitution binds company and members
- 56Optional provisions replace Table A
- 57Changing the internal rulebook
- 58A company name is not a free choice
- 59Name the layers of share capital
- 60Share classes divide rights
- 61Allotment, rights and bonus shares
- 62Discount prohibited, premium protected
- 63A company's power to borrow
- 64Loan capital and debentures
- 65Investor or creditor?
- 66Fixed and floating charges
- 67Register the charge and protect priority
- 68Capital cannot simply walk out
- 69Dividends come from distributable profits
- 70Who counts as a director?
- 71Appointment, exit, restriction and disqualification
- 72Who can bind the company?
- 73Life without an LTD objects clause
- 74The audit committee asks harder questions
- 75Directors hold power on trust
- 76The company secretary keeps governance moving
- 77The auditor's independent voice
- 78AGM and extraordinary business
- 79Ordinary, special and written resolutions
- 80Calling and conducting the meeting
- 81The summary approval procedure
- 82Two voluntary winding-up routes
- 83The court orders liquidation
- 84Who may act as liquidator?
- 85Who gets paid first?
- 86Examinership aims to rescue
- 87Appointing and empowering the examiner
- 88SCARP: rescue for small and micro companies
- 89The receiver enforces security
- 90Inside information cannot become a private advantage
- 91Market abuse is wider than insider dealing
- 92Follow the money and know the customer
- 93Bribery corrupts the decision
- 94Company crime during operation and winding up
- 95Fraudulent is dishonest; reckless is irresponsible
- 96Congratulations on completing the module