Shackleton on the Law and Practice of Meetings

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Description
Shackleton is widely acknowledged as the authority on the law and practice of both company and non-company meetings. Covering all sizes of meetings from AGMs, local authority meetings, public meetings to specialised committees, the work clearly takes you through every stage of the meeting from selecting a venue, its convening and preparations, to conduct, minute taking and adjournment
Additionally dealing with related topics - such as defamatory statements at meetings and breach of the peace at public meetings - the book is an essential reference guide, suitable for legal professionals, company secretaries, administrators, directors, local authorities and any other organisation that holds formal meetings. This new eleventh edition has been brought fully up to date with all recent legislative changes since the last edition; most notably the Companies Act 2006, and the abolition of the need for private companies to hold AGMs. It also takes account of all other case law and legislation affecting this area, including the Human Rights Act 1998, Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003,Terrorism Act 2000, Electronic Communications Order 2000, Societas Europaea and the Enterprise Act 2002.
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Contents
1.    The Legal Right
2.    Breach of the Peace and other aspects of the Criminal Law
3.    The Maintenance of Order
4.    A Public Meeting
5.    Covening the Meeting
6.    Constitution and Adjournment of the Meeting
7.    The Conduct of the Meeting
8.    Minutes
9.    The Committee System
10.   The Principles of Natural Justice
11.   Applicable Law and Other Matters
12.   Members' Meetings: Status and Convention
13.   Constituing a Members' Meeting
14.   Members' Meeting: Attendance and Voting
15.   Members' Meeting : Resolutions
16.   Members' Meeting : Minuts
17.   Class Meeting
18.   Meeting under Section 425 (Compromises and Arrangements)
19.   Meetings of Members of Companies Examples in Practice
20.   Power and Duties of Directors
21.   Appointment to and Departure from office
22.   Constitution and Conduct of Directors' Meeting
23.   Board Meetings: Examples in Practice
24.   Meeings in Insolvency situations, short of winding up
25.   Meetings in Insolvency situations - Winding up
26.   Proxies and company representation in an Insolvency
27.   Members' Voluntary winding up
28.   Meetings of Local Authorities
29.   Local Authorities and other bodies acces to meeting and Information
30.   Defamatory Statments
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Author's Details
Madeleine Cordes, LLB, FCIS, has over 20 years' experience as a Chartered Secretary in industry and professional practice which has included significant hands-on involvement in company board, committee and shareholder meetings. Her previous roles include acting as Company Secretary of Carpetright, a FTSE 250 company, interim roles with Standard Chartered and Orange, Senior Manager in Ernst & Young's Company Secretarial Group and Director of Capita Registrars' company secretarial business. In 2007 Madeleine moved offshore to the Cayman Islands and joined the trust group of Walkers law firm. Her role includes the development of board and shareholder meeting support services for investment funds. Madeleine was previously a member of the QCA's Corporate Governance Committee which represents the interests of smaller UK listed companies. She is an examiner for her professional body, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, a regular speaker at conferences and is also Executive Editor of Company Secretary's Factbook.
John Pugh-Smith MA (Oxon), FSA, is a barrister and CEDR accreditated mediator practising from 39 Essex Street Chambers. He has been instructed by many developers and local authorities for a number of years on planning, environmental and related local government work and is highly regarded as a leading and experienced junior in these fields. He has been the originating author, editor and contributor to a range of titles, from, currently, Neighbours and the Law {4th Edition, 2006), Archaeology in Law (1996), to OUP's Environmental Law (2000), the Planning, Property & Compensation Reports ("P&CR"), and the Journal of Planning & Environment Law. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, member of UKELA and ELF and on the committee of PEBA. He regularly lectures at seminars on both planning and environment law and practice, including Sweet & Maxwell's Annual Planning Law Conference.
Alex Ruck Keene has been a barrister at 39 Essex Street since 2002. The bulk of his practice is in public law, and he has been appointed as a member of the Attorney-General's C Panel. He advises and acts regularly in judicial review proceedings concerning the whole gamut of central and local government decision-making, with particular expertise in mental health and community care matters. He also conducts numerous investigations for local authorities into allegations of misconduct by officers and/or members, as well as providing training into how such problems can be averted. He was the 2005 Pegasus Scholar at the European Court of Human Rights, and in his spare time enjoys cooking, walking and the creation and criticism of art.
James Burton is a barrister practising at 39 Essex Street Chambers, with a particular interest in planning, environmental and local government law, in which he appears regularly at public inquiry and in the courts. James is also frequently
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