Key developments in corporate law and trusts law : essays in honour of Professor Harold Ford / edited by Ian Ramsay.

Sydney : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2002.

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Ford, Harold Arthur John, -- 1920-.

Corporation law -- Australia.

Trusts and trustees -- Australia.

1. Introduction to esssays in honour of Professor Harold Ford

2. Comparative corporate governance and the Australian experience

3. Globalisation, the new financial architecture and effective corporate governance

4. Institutional investors, corporate governance and the new international financial architecture

5. Shareholders as principals

6. The role of corporate governance practices in the development of legal principles relating to directors

7. Directors' duty of care and the new business judgment rule in the twenty-first century environment

8. Voluntary administrators as fiduciaries

9. Reflections on some commercial applications of the trust

10. The responsible entity as trustee

11. Equitable compensation as a remedy for diversion of opportunity.

"Most of the chapters are revised versions of papers presented at a conference - a celebration of the scholarship of Emeritus Professor Harold Ford - held at the University of Melbourne on 16 March 2001."

Includes index.

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xi, 324 p.