The social and environmental costs imposed by business corporations on society are significant and, as a society, we are increasingly concerned about how to mitigate these impacts. It is this concern and the apparent inability of government to take decisive steps that has made the question of...

The role of the company as a significant source of economic and social power, and egregious abuses by companies of that power, have seen the emergence of corporate governance as one of the most pressing and widely debated issues of the 21st century. This book identifies and analyses the core...

The history of the development of company law is such that one might well have anticipated that in its first decade the Supreme Court of New Zealand would have been called upon to consider various aspects of both the common law and statute law of companies. In fact, as we will see, this has not...