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The Company
Law Resource Centre is an online information service that helps
busy Company Secretaries, Company Directors and Senior Managers
within private and public companies comply with UK company law.
The service has already established an excellent reputation
amongst existing subscribers who have access to up to date information,
advice, step by step guides, hints and tips, essential documents
and expert interpretation of company law - all for a low-cost
annual subscription fee of £99 + VAT.
The subscription is company wide allowing everyone in your
company unlimited online access.
To subscribe to The Company Law Resource Centre please click here.
See below for a preview of some of the invaluable resources available to subscribers to The Company Law Resource Centre.
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| Getting Paid - A Practical Guide to Collecting Commercial Debts
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This guide is designed to help commercial organisations decide when and how legal action should be taken to make sure they collect monies due from their customers. If you have tight credit control procedures in place and you still cannot get a customer to pay up, you need to know how to make cost-effective use of the Courts Service to get your money in safely and on time.
This page is under construction and will be available by 10th March 2010.
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| The changes on 1st October 2009 in detail
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The final tranche of
provisions of the Companies Act 2006 were implemented on 1st October 2009. This
section outlines the final changes in detail for you.
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| All of the Changes made by The Companies Act 2006
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There has been a
phased implementation of the Companies Act 2006 which was completed on 1st October
2009.
This section itemises 140 significant changes made to company law by the new
Companies Act. Directors and Secretaries who are not aware of these changes
run unnecessary risks of not complying with company law and suffering significant
penalties.
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| The Essential Guide to Company Law
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The new Companies Act has fundamentally
changed how companies operate in the UK. All the provisions of the Act were
fully implemented on 1st October 2009.
This section of the Company Law Resource Centre is the most comprehensive and
reliable source of information available. It fully reflects company law as it
is from 1st October 2009.
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| A copy of the Companies Act 2006
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The Companies Act
2006 is the largest Act of Parliament to be placed on the statute book in the
UK and possibly in the world.
This section links you to the electronic version of the Act on the OPSI website.
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| A Company's Constitution and Articles
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The constitutions
of private companies limited by shares, private companies limited by guarantee
and public limited companies have been rigorously reviewed.
The new Companies Act has introduced new Model Articles for companies that
are registered on or after 1st October 2009. This section helps companies that
might want to implement changes by replacing provisions in its existing articles
with some or all of the provisions in the new Model Articles.
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| Copies of Company Regulations and Model Articles
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The Companies Act 2006
has introduced new Model Articles which from 1st October 2009 will be the default
articles for newly formed companies.
This section contains the official government regulations and copies of the
model articles that were introduced by the Companies Act 1948, the Companies
Act 1985 and the Companies Act 2006.
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| The new Companies House Forms
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On 1st October 2009 Companies
House introduced a new set of forms for filing purposes which have a completely
new numbering system.
This section explains the new numbering system and provides specimens of most
popular Companies House Forms.
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| News 2010
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Important news items concerning
company law and the effect that it may have on businesses in the UK.
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| News
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Important news items concerning
company law and the effect that it may have on businesses in the UK.
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| Opinion
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The Opinion section
of The Company Law Resource Centre will contain contributions from our subscribers
and other guest contributors. This will include the archive of the series of
monthly articles published by The Company Law Resource Centre on current issues
affecting company law, as well as the comments submitted by the articles readers.
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| Links
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If there is anything
we can possibly provide for you on these pages then we will endeavour to do
so, but we can also point you in the right direction to some other useful websites
that contain information and advice that is important and relevant to the role
of a Company Secretary or Company Director.
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Do you have any suggestions or ideas for resources that would be very useful for Company Sectretaries, Company Directors or Senior Managers? If so then please go to Resource Centre Suggestions and submit a brief summary of your idea. |
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