Keane on Company Law, Fifth Edition (previously: Company Law by Justice Ronan Keane) covers the Companies Act 2014 and is essential reading for students, solicitors and barristers alike. This latest edition of Judge Keane's highly regarded text on Irish company law is substantially revised and updated to cover the Companies Act 2014, as amended up to October 2016, and also covers the many developments in the case-law since the fourth edition was published in 2006. Hardly any aspect of company law is left untouched in some way by the 2014 Act. The Act not only repeals the prior Companies Acts and replaces them with a consolidated code, but also introduces many innovations designed to make companies more accessible to those doing business, and to streamline corporate compliance and procedures. The Act creates two new forms of private company: the private company limited by shares (LTD), which enjoys concessions not previously available to private companies, and the designated activity company (DAC) which more closely resembles to private company known under the former legislation. It also overhauls the requirements relating to other forms of company, namely PLCs, guarantee companies (CLGs) and unlimited companies, while also clarifying and extending the obligations of external companies which operate in Ireland. Among the key changes are the effective abolition of the ultra vires rule, which has applied to all companies up to now, and changes in the requirements relating to the constitutions of companies. The Act also changes the rules regarding company capital, and makes significant changes to the law concerning: the registration of company charges; the conduct of windings up; the passing of written resolutions; and the approval of certain transactions which previously were either prohibited or required Court approval, by a new Summary Approval Procedure involving a special resolution combined with an appropriate declaration by the directors, subject to safeguards to prevent improper use. The Act also codifies the previously common-law fiduciary duties of directors, and substantially modifies the regime regarding disclosure and approval of transactions involving directors. The Act also introduces new procedures whereby Irish companies can be merged or divided. Recent amendments to the Act have added further requirements regarding statutory audit and auditors; and impending changes (addressed in this edition) will alter the regime governing annual financial statements and impose filing requirements on unlimited companies. Meanwhile the courts have been busy, particularly in the areas of restriction and disqualification of directors, and examinership, but also notably in the areas of company charges, reservation of title, financial assistance in the purchase of shares, to mention but a few. All these changes to Irish company legislation are covered in this new edition which continues in the accessible and user-friendly but authoritative style for which previous editions have made the work a renowned standard
Arranged in a unique topic-by-topic order, the Hutchinson Pocket Encyclopedia from ancient history to sporting facts and figures. Compiled by over 25 expert consultants, it gives a clear outline for each subject, including chronologies, biographies, and common terms, together with over 200 maps, tables, and diagrams.
This is the tenth edition of this encylcopaedia which has been updated to include the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Gorbachev coup attempt, the Yugoslavian Civil War, sporting records and results, biographies, finance terms, abbreviations, foreign phrases and quotations from major writers. The science entries have been revised to take account of the GCSE syllabuses. New entries include capital flight, debt-for-nature, pit bull terriers, teleworking, Ben Okri, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Monica Seles, Clarence Thomas and political correctness.
A decade of war in Afghanistan has cost more than 150 Canadian lives and billions of dollars. It began without a clear idea of the nature of the operation, when Defence Minister Art Eggleton said he would not use the word “war” as he committed troops to Afghanistan in October, 2001. Nor did anyone know how long the task would take although General Ray Henault, the Chief of Defence Staff, pledged, “We do know that we will contribute … as long as it is required.” At the end of our involvement in this ravaged country, it is critical to go back and examine what Afghanistan quickly became — a war — and what it might yet become. What are the feelings of those involved? Did we achieve goals set during the operation? What does the mission look like as it wraps up? And, most important of all, whether the cost — tallied in so many ways: monetary, in lives, emotion, heartbreak — was worth it all? They are difficult questions, but necessary ones. This is the aim of The Long Road: The National Post in Afghanistan. The project is built around the work and perspectives of two of our most experienced journalists on the ground in Afghanistan, Brian Hutchinson and Richard Johnson; between them, they have been to Afghanistan seven times over a period of years. They returned earlier this spring, embedded with the Canadian forces, to watch and report and illustrate the dying days of the mission. In 2001, Mr. Eggleton said Canada would be an integral part of the international campaign in Afghanistan. He could not have known the blood and treasure that would be expended. The Long Road aims to finally put it all in perspective.
This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century. Moore's ethical project, set out in his seminal text Principia Ethica, is to preserve common moral insight from scepticism and, in effect, persuade his readers to accept the objective character of goodness. Brian Hutchinson explores Moore's arguments in detail and in the process relates the ethical thought to Moore's anti-sceptical epistemology. Moore was, without perhaps fully realizing it, sceptical about the very enterprise of philosophy itself, and in this regard, as Brian Hutchinson reveals, was much closer in his thinking to Wittgenstein than has been previously realized. This book shows Moore's ethical work to be much richer and more sophisticated than his critics have acknowledged.
Fool's Gold is a hard hitting account of how and why the biggest mining fraud ever perpetrated by a Canadian company was allowed to happen and -- most shockingly -- how it could happen again. Bruce Hutchinson charts the unholy alliance which exists in Canada among penny-stock promoters and investment analysts, and he reveals how the financial instruments used by companies to raise money have been seriously abused. He shows also how regulatory agencies -- agencies that exist to protect investors -- are reluctant to enforce their own rules, while irresponsible promotion is rampant; and how Canadian mining interests have aligned with brutal political regimes to produce environmental degradation and deadly social unrest.
1992 has seen the most momentous changes in country boundaries this century. The break-up of the Soviet Union has redrawn the map of Europe, the civil war in Yugoslavia has resulted in a further three new states. This guide brings the reader up to date with all these changes. This guide includes 18 new sovereign states, over 500 new entries and redrawn maps and geographic, economic and political information. Every country includes maps and information boxes, covering such headings as the environment, major political parties and a chronology of major dates.
The Gibraltar Conspiracy is the story of life around one of the most unusual land borders in Europe. This work of fiction is based upon a real environment with a few real people. Gibraltar – The Rock – which visually dominates this part of Southern Europe, is the dramatic setting for a story of intrigue, rivalry, international diplomacy, and corruption on a massive level. The influence of powerful governments and people, the self-serving politicians and officials, continues through the book, as does the dedication and loyalty of the leading characters in this fictional but reality-reflective story. The writer has spent many years in the area, enjoying the culture, the wonderful food and wine, and the friendship and hospitality of the people of Gibraltar, La Linea, San Roque, and Torreguadiaro. Truly a melting pot of international cultures and traditions.
With over 90,00 entries in total, this book provides a coverage of words, phrases and terms in contemporary usage. Over 15,000 encyclopedic entries on people, places, politics, science, technology, the arts, business and mythology - to name a few of the categories covered - are combined with over 75,000 dictionary definitions. This book is designed to be of interest to families and for use in the the office, school or college.
This work approaches the phenomenon of guild socialism from a new perspective, focusing on the Douglas Social Credit movement. It explores the key ideas, gives an overview of the main theories and traces their subsequent history. Thoroughly researched, it provides original material relevant to the field of political economy. This early approach to non-equilibrium economics reveals the extent of the incompatibility between capitalist growth economics and social and environmental sustainability.
As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident in popular culture and the interplay between two specific strains of music: middle-class folk and blackface minstrelsy. The Hutchinson Family Singers, the Northeast’s most popular middle-class singing group during the mid-nineteenth century, is perhaps the best example of the first strain of music. The group’s songs expressed an American identity rooted in communal values, with lyrics focusing on abolition, women’s rights, and socialism. Blackface minstrelsy, on the other hand, emerged out of an audience-based coalition of Northern business elites, Southern slaveholders, and young, white, working-class men, for whom blackface expressed an identity rooted in individual self-expression, anti-intellectualism, and white superiority. Its performers embodied the love-crime version of racism, in which vast swaths of the white public adored African Americans who fit blackface stereotypes even as they used those stereotypes to rationalize white supremacy. By the early twentieth century, the blackface version of the American identity had become a part of America’s consumer culture while the Hutchinsons’ songs were increasingly regarded as old-fashioned. Blackface Nation elucidates the central irony in America’s musical history: much of the music that has been interpreted as black, authentic, and expressive was invented, performed, and enjoyed by people who believed strongly in white superiority. At the same time, the music often depicted as white, repressed, and boringly bourgeois was often socially and racially inclusive, committed to reform, and devoted to challenging the immoralities at the heart of America’s capitalist order.
Hutchinson explores every facet of Canada's growing obsession with gambling. He examines the psychology behind this obsession and covers the business interests pushing it, as well as the government's questionable role in it. Along the way he introduces the reader to fascinating characters he met. Hutchinson argues that there is disturbing new evidence of rot in the system, and mounting concern over Canada's addiction to games of chance.
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