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The purpose of this text is to provide a teaching/ learning tool within a semester corporations law unit. The use of a plain English writing style, combined with fuller case extracts makes corporations law more accessible to those who study or practise in the area of corporations law. Since the publication of the second edition there have been significant changes in corporations law. From a legislative perspective, important changes have been effected in regard to the law pertaining to executive officers and directors (in particular their remuneration and financial reporting). Judicially, this period has been marked by a considerable number of important cases pertaining to directorsaaC--a liability arising out of, inter alia, high profile cases, including the James Hardie cases. These cases have provided guidance as to the applicability of both statutory and equitable directorsaaC--a duties, but also clarified the procedural and substantive law aspects of the penalties flowing from breaches of such duties. The coverage of the chapters is broad and as well reflecting the content of most courses in Australia, will be a useful reference in any practitioner's library.

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[This book's] purpose is to cover the major topics of corporations law and explain fundamental concepts within those areas. Acknowledging those limited aims, it succeeds very well. Each chapter begins with an overview. The text flows easily with approporiate, logical headings and subheadings. Professor Cassidy has an admirable ability to express herself clearly and concisely so potentially difficult topics can be easily understood by students and readers unfamiliar with the subject. The book contains many case extracts - around 60 in total. The judgments selected are relevant and each passage is preceded by a headnote where the important facts are outlined and the judgment of the court explained. It follows that the cases selected will, I expect, help the reader more fully understand the critical issues underpinning our corporations law. Professor Cassidy believes the case extracts make the book more useful for legal practitioners in preparing submissions and opinions, and I agree with her. ... [T]he book easily reaches the goal it sets out to achieve, that is, to explain the corporations law clearly and well, and in plain English. Those qualities will make it a valuable aid for both students and practitioners. - Christopher Crawford, (2005) 26 Qld Lawyer Although this is presented as a book of text and essential cases it is an extraordinarily useful little book. I come to it as a person who in his heyday was extremely familiar with the ins and outs of the Companies Act 1936 (NSW) (and 1961, 1981), interstate equivalents, and later uniform Acts. However, I find it extremely difficult to relate what I learnt then with the current provision of the Corporations Act which might find itself in s 3417ZVH. I have found this book extremely handy in going straight away to the appropriate heading via the index and seeing the current provisions spelt out very clearly. I suspect that people coming into corporations law for the first time would find it equally helpful. Apart from very clear expositions of the basic principles of corporations law, the extracts from the cases that are set out cut to the quick. One does not have to read five or six pages of text before getting to the key points in the judgment, but often only two or three paragraphs of the leading judgments will be set out. Moreover, the judgments that are set out are not always the ones that are featured in the classic textbooks but include extracts from modern, yet obscure cases in which the judge has very clearly set out in precise words the applicable principle. Although the book is designed specifically to meet the needs of students undertaking one semester case based course in corporations law, it is, as I have said, generally useful. - Justice Peter Young, Alternative Law Journal, Vol 79 (2005) [This book's] purpose is to cover the major topics of corporations law and explain fundamental concepts within those areas. Acknowledging those limited aims, it succeeds very well. Each chapter begins with an overview. The text flows easily with approporiate, logical headings and subheadings. Professor Cassidy has an admirable ability to express herself clearly and concisely so potentially difficult topics can be easily understood by students and readers unfamiliar with the subject. The book contains many case extracts - around 60 in total. The judgments selected are relevant and each passage is preceded by a headnote where the important facts are outlined and the judgment of the court explained. It follows that the cases selected will, I expect, help the reader more fully understand the critical issues underpinning our corporations law. Professor Cassidy believes the case extracts make the book more useful for legal practitioners in preparing submissions and opinions, and I agree with her. ... [T]he book easily reaches the goal it sets out to achieve, that is, to explain the corporations law clearly and well, and in plain English. Those qualities will make it a valuable aid for both students and practitioners. - Christopher Crawford, (2005) 26 Qld Lawyer

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