Directors' duties

Out-Law Guides

• Disclosure in the accounts of a director's interests in contracts

  This guide is based on UK law as at 1st February 2010, unless otherwise stated. Where a company or any of its subsidiaries enters into a transaction with a director of the company, the rules on...

• Directors' contracts with listed companies

  This guide is based on UK law as at 1st February 2010, unless otherwise stated. If a company’s shares are traded on the main market of the London Stock Exchange there is a further set of requiremen...

• Indemnity and insurance protection for directors

  This article is based on UK law as at 1st February 2010, unless otherwise stated. To what extent can a company protect its directors from some of the liabilities outlined in our guides to directors...

• Directors' duties: Duty to promote the success of the company

  This guide is based on UK law as at 1st February 2010, unless otherwise stated. Two examples that pre-date the Companies Act 2006 serve to illustrate the kind of thinking the government expects fro...

• Directors' duties: Decision taking and reord keeping

  This guide is based on UK law as at 1st February 2010, unless otherwise stated. The requirement under the code of duties to pay regard to six specific factors of responsible business behaviour (see...

• Directors' duties: Six factors that boards cannot ignore

  This guide is based on UK law as at 1st February 2010, unless otherwise stated. As part of its decision-making process, a board needs to consider the following factors and weigh up their influence ...