Company and Partnership
Butterworths Company Law Statutes, 9th Edition
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Title: Butterworths Company Law Statutes, 9th Edition
Author: LexisNexis
ISBN: 9781877511240
Price: $97 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: This title is a convenient, up-to-date, one-volume resource containing a wide and comprehensive range of company law statutes for use primarily in study. This latest edition continues to provide a useful, current, and tidy set of legislation for the student.
Current as at 1 June 2009.
Publishing Date: July 2009
Format: Softcover
TopDirectors' Powers and Duties
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Title: Directors' Powers and Duties
Author: Peter Watts
ISBN: 9780408715546
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Brief Synopsis: This book provides practitioners and students with a full treatment of one of the most important and complex aspects of company law, directors’ powers and duties. Of all the areas of company law, directors’ powers and duties is among the least accessible from the statute (i.e. Companies Act 1993). Behind the statute, is a long and very complex history of equitable and common law case law, most of which remains applicable in New Zealand.
This book also contains short summaries of leading cases which is very useful both for students and practitioners.
Publishing Date: 17/09/2009
Format: Soft cover
TopButterworths Questions and Answers: Company Law, Second Edition
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Title: Butterworths Questions and Answers: Company Law, Second Edition
Author/s: Dr Matthew Berkahn
ISBN: 9780408718752
Price: $51.93 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: The Q&A Series provides students with a take-home resource with which to perfect their skills in answering exam-type questions for the difficult compulsory or quasi-compulsory subjects. Butterworths Questions and Answers: Company Law has been updated and revised by Dr Matt Berkahn, a senior lecturer in business law, at Massey University. The content includes directors’ duties, lifting the veil, constitution, shareholders’ remedies, further reading, pitfalls, model answers, and skill practice.
This book will make all the difference to students in this difficult area of law. Berkahn makes it easy to analyse the changes and the structure of answering questions on company law. With changes to insolvency law, minority buy-out rights, directors’ duties, share capital, and shareholder remedies the second edition is essential take-home practice for all students.
Publishing Date: 07/11/2007
Format: Soft Cover
TopButterworths Student Companion: Company Law
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Title: Butterworths Student Companion: Company Law
Author/s: Cathy Harrison, Cartwright
ISBN: 978 0408715522
Price: $42.32 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: A collection of case summaries on important company law cases from New Zealand, along with relevant international decisions, this title collects the key cases, gives the facts, the decisions and the principles in easy-to-understand language. A glossary of key terms is supplied for easy reference.
Publishing Date: 15/11/1999
Format: Soft cover
TopLaw of Societies in New Zealand, Second Edition
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Title: Law of Societies in New Zealand, Second Edition
Author/s: Mark von Dadelszen
ISBN: 978187751108
Price: $120.00 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: This comprehensive and up-to-date text explains the legislative framework within which societies, incorporated, unincorporated, and charitable, and charitable trusts, operate. It is an essential resource for legal advisers. The text will also be invaluable to the many New Zealanders actively involved in setting up and running societies and charitable trusts as it provides officers and members with the basic legal resources to carry out their tasks, while providing enough information to indicate when formal legal advice should be sought. This edition has been totally revised to incorporate new case and statute law since publication of the first edition in 2000. In particular, the Chapter on charities has been substantially re-written to reflect the new Charities Commission regime under the Charities Act 2005.
Publishing Date: 05/08/2009
Format: Soft cover
TopPersonal and Corporate Insolvency Legislation
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Title: Personal and Corporate Insolvency Legislation
Author/s: David Brown & Thomas Telfer
ISBN: 9780408717663
Price: $104.31 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: The Insolvency Act 2006, Companies Amendment Act 2006, and Insolvency (Cross-border) Act 2006 were introduced in response to widespread criticism of New Zealand’s procedures for dealing with corporate and personal insolvency. Personal and Corporate Insolvency Legislation highlights the main amendments to the insolvency regime. The book gives practitioners a pathfinder to the framework, concepts and key changes in the 2006 amendments and provides a portable volume of this important legislation.
Publishing Date: 23/02/2007
Format: Soft cover
TopPrinciples of Partnerships, 6th Edition
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Title: Principles of Partnerships, 6th Edition
Author/s: Professor P R H Webb, Anthony Molloy QC
ISBN: 978 0408713832
Price: $179.23 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: This sixth edition, designed principally for practitioners, features new chapters on legal proceedings, specific performance, injunctions and other remedies, joint ventures, and new revenue law and securities law material by tax expert Anthony Molloy.
Publishing Date: 1/08/1996
Format: Soft cover
TopUnderstanding Company Law
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Title: Understanding Company Law
Author/s: John McDermott
ISBN: 9780408716369
Price: $101.60 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: Understanding Company Law is intended as an introductory textbook for all students of the law of companies and partnerships.
The core of the book covers the Companies Act 1993. Other topics include partnership, insolvency, securities law, takeovers and amalgamations, and miscellaneous entities. The latter topic includes an introduction to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), Maori enterprises, incorporated societies, trading trusts and co-operative companies.
The book aims to provide the student with sufficient knowledge to develop a critical analysis and understanding of the law. The law is presented in the context of criticisms of it, along with its uncertainties, ambiguities and problems, rather than merely a mechanical description of the rules – making company law easier for students to understand.
Understanding Company Law features: -
• Clear, accessible writing;
• Two-colour layout throughout;
• Full glossaries and definitions for each chapter;
• Tables, cases and examples to illustrate concepts;
• Facts of cases simply recorded.
About the Author: John McDermott was a solicitor with eight years experience in legal practice before joining The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand 15 years ago. John has assisted with teaching a number of courses during his academic career, including courses for the Legal Executive Certificate, New Zealand Diploma in Business, and Bachelor of Business degree programmes. In recent times he has had responsibility for teaching the Polytechnic’s degree course on the Law of Business Organisations. John has published research papers on various legal topics in refereed and other journals, and has contributed chapters to several textbooks, including Skinnon and McDermott (eds) Law of Marketing in New Zealand (2nd ed, LexisNexis, 2001). John is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court and holds degrees in Commerce and Law.
Publishing Date: 02/03/2005
Format: Soft cover
TopMorison’s Company and Securities Law
Title: Morison’s Company and Securities Law
Contributing Authors: Andrew Beck, Andrew Borrowdale, Neil Campbell, Frank Chan, Simon McArley, Giora Shapira, Tom Telfer, and Peter Watts
Format: Four-volume looseleaf, CD-ROM and Online
Servicing: At least seven services per year
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A highly regarded text, Morison's is the most comprehensive narrative-style authority available on Company and Securities Law. Written by a team of leading practitioners and academics from a variety of backgrounds, Morison's covers all facets of company and securities law.
Ideal For: Practitioners (private practice and corporate lawyers), Department of Justice, company directors, corporate businesses, and accounting firms.
Related Products: Company and Securities Law Bulletin (CSLB), Commercial Law in New Zealand, NZCCLR.
TopCompany and Securities Law Bulletin (CSLB)
Title: Company and Securities Law Bulletin
Editorial Board: Andrew Beck, Neil Campbell, Stephen Franks and Peter Watts
Format: A4 Bulletin; 8-20 pages per issue and Online
Servicing: Monthly
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Synopsis: The Company and Securities Law Bulletin (CSLB) provides up-to-date commentary on significant developments in all facets of company and securities law.
The Bulletin includes editorials on topical issues, articles on recent developments and current issues, catchlines of all High Court and Court of Appeal decisions on company and securities law and structured headnotes for all important cases. The Bulletin is published monthly (minimum 8-pages), and alternates each month between the "Headnote Digest" (containing headnotes of important recent cases in the area) and the "Editorial Edition" (containing an editorial and articles, recent judgments, current developments, and a legislative update).
The Bulletin is written by experts in the field; contributions are received from academics and practitioners, both in New Zealand and overseas.
Over the years, the Bulletin has become an essential aid and reference, and is the regular bulletin for debate and discussion of company and securities law.
Ideal for: Practitioners, academics, company directors.
TopMembers’ Meetings, Second Edition
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Title: Members' Meetings, Second Editon
Author/s: Mark von Dadelszen
ISBN: 9780408717779
Price: $32.98 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: Members’ Meetings, Second Edition, offers a user’s guide to running or participating in meetings. The sell-out, self-published, first edition of Members’ Meetings gave those faced with the practical issues of running formal meetings enough guidance to proceed with confidence. This second edition expands on and brings up to date some areas, such as Model Standing Orders. It was also updated to incorporate Local Government Acts amendments in 2004.
Publishing Date: July 2004
Format: Softcopy
TopPrivate Receivers of Companies in New Zealand, Third Edition
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Title: Private Receivers of Companies in New Zealand, Third Edition
Author/s: Rt Hon Peter Blanchard, Ass. Prof. Michael Gedye
ISBN: 9780408717915
Price: $186.38 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis:A successor to The Law of Company Receiverships in New Zealand and Australia. Since the last edition of that work appeared in 1994, the New Zealand statute law concerning the security interests under which receivers are appointed has substantially diverged from that in Australia. This book deals specifically with New Zealand law and covers: The Personal Property Securities Act 1999, in force from 1 May 2002; the amendments to the Receiverships Act and the Companies Act, which came into force on 1 November 2007, and the new Property Law Act 2007, in force from 1 January 2008 (which has amended both the other statutes and the Personal Property Securities Act).
Publishing Date: February 2008
Format: Softcopy
TopWells’ Limited Partnership Handbook
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Title:Wells’ Limited Partnership Handbook
Author/s: Nick Wells, Phillippa Wilkie
ISBN: 9780408719124
Price: $120 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: It has taken more than five years of extensive consultation to produce the Limited Partnerships Act 2008, a process that included a review of nine other jurisdictions, aiming to take the best from each to achieve a vehicle that is both internationally recognisable and competitive. The Limited Partnership Handbook helps busy practitioners apply the new legislation in a wide range of commercial situations. The text clearly explains limited partnership law and comprehensively covers the features unique to the New Zealand regime. It contains The Limited Partnerships Act 2008, practical suggestions for drafting and an example of a Limited Partnership Agreement.
Publishing Date: September 2008
Format: Softcopy