LAW45515: Advanced Issues in Corporate Law
Summative Essay Title
March - June 2024
Answer ONE of the following questions:
1. UK company law quite rightly requires those running a company to put the interests of its
shareholders first. Other stakeholders are fully protected by whatever contracts they enter
into with the company.
Discuss.
OR
2. Minority shareholders are in a very vulnerable position, and UK company law does very
little to protect them.
Discuss.
OR
3. A company’s creditors are in a very vulnerable position. For ‘involuntary creditors’, UK law
now effectively makes shareholders personally liable. But it still does too little to protect those
who agree to lend to a company.
Discuss.
Word Limit: 3,000 words
(excluding footnotes and appendices, bibliography, contents,
tables of cases and title pages)
Submission deadline: Wednesday 8th May 2024 12.00 (midday) UK time
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with minimum 1.5 line spacing and 1 inch margins. Place your
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