Shadow Director in UK Law

  • Ireland: Delinquent Directors and Others — The Irish Approach
    • No. 3-3, January 1996
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 297-299
    Part VII of Ireland's Companies Act 1990 brought about significant reforms to counter the abuse of the privilege of limited liability by directors and other officers. The new measures are based on ...
    ... ... that a person who is, or was during the preceding 12 months, a director of the company must not for a period of five years be appointed or act ectly as director, shadow director or secretary or be concerned in the pro-motion or formation of ... ...
  • Introduction
    • Contents
    • Law of Insolvent Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
    • Elspeth Berry/Rebecca Parry
    • 1-21
    ... ... 5(2) of the LLP Regulations 2001 provides that references to a director shall include references to an LLP member ... 1.4.6 Contributories ... , with the generic modifications to the terms ‘director’, ‘shadow director’ and ‘company’ made by articles 2 and 3 of the IPO and ... ...
  • Ascription of Legal Responsibility to Groups in Complex Patterns of Economic Integration
    • No. 53-6, November 1990
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... -user-select:none;user-select:none;}@media print{.pf{margin:0;box-shadow:none;page-break-after:always;page-break-inside:avoid;}@-moz-document ... law, in the event of allegations of fraud against a director or controller of a company, the courts sometimes permit a ... ...
  • Criminal Liability under the Insolvency Rules 1986
    • No. 51-3, August 1987
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    • 0000
    ... ... -user-select:none;user-select:none;}@media print{.pf{margin:0;box-shadow:none;page-break-after:always;page-break-inside:avoid;}@-moz-document ... For the purpose of this provision officer includes shadow director; see ruie 1.30(2); shadow director means ... a person in accordance with ... ...
  • Corporate Governance and the Capital Market in Ghana: The Stymieing Role of the State
    • No. , August 2018
    • African Journal of International and Comparative Law
    • 285-308
    ... ... explain how the state violates key corporate governance rules on director independence and minority shareholder protection. Section IV will conclude ... These are ‘de facto directors’ and ‘shadow directors’ ... A de facto director is a person who, not having been ... ...
  • Application for a declaration that the director has been engaged in wrongful trading
    • Contents
    • Watson-Gandy On Corporate Insolvency Practice - 2nd Edition
    • Mark Watson-Gandy
    • 363-376
    ... ... 4 ‘Director’ includes a shadow director. 5 ... Any compensation ordered goes to the general funds in the hands of the liquidator or administrator rather than to compensate an ... ...
  • Permission to act as a director of a company with a prohibited name
    • Contents
    • Watson-Gandy On Corporate Insolvency Practice - 2nd Edition
    • Mark Watson-Gandy
    • 127-142
    ... ... OBJECTIVE ... Subject to three statutory exceptions under the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016, directors and shadow directors are prohibited under section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 from reusing any name their former company used in the year leading up to its ... ...
  • Limited liability partnerships regulations 2001 (SI 2001/1090), extracts
    • Appendices
    • Law of Insolvent Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
    • Elspeth Berry/Rebecca Parry
    • 615-643
    ... ... “8A The extent of the member’s and shadow members’ responsibility for events leading to a member or shadow member, ... Section 89 (statutory declaration of solvency) ... For “director"(s)” wherever it appears in section 89 substitute “designated member(s)\xE2" ... ...
  • Occupational hazards: some employers hand out fancy job titles as a zero-cost motivational tool, while others use them to attempt a laudable culture change, But, as Charles Orton-Jones explains, the usual outcomes are cynicism and confusion.
    • No. 2008, April 2008
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Orton-Jones, Charles
    ... ... and disqualification from running a company, yet the term "director" is often used to add lustre to distinctly non-directorial positions. For ... duties of directorship but without the title may be labelled a shadow director, defined as a "person in accordance with whose directions or ... ...
  • Legal Development
    • No. 21-3, September 2014
    • Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
    ... ... (5) of the proposal gives t he shareholder the right to remove a director at any time, which imme diately deprives him or her of the authorit y and ...  is concept of ‘shadow director’ apparently stems from Eng lish law – but in English law, it ... ...
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