Understanding of Company Law, which governs the corporate sector, is of paramount importance not only to the students of business but also for the working managers. This book has been prepared with a conscious effort to meet in full measure the requirements of all of them.The book offers a working account of appropriate business laws and in-depth analysis of the subject. A good range and variety of examples illustrate the subject matter. The emphasis, all through, is on clarity and the way company law operates on a day-to-day basis for business.In order to enable the readers know their progress in understanding the subject, a number of exercises are included under the heading 'Check Your Progress'. The following matter has been provided through appendices: Company Law in a computerized environment (E-governance and E-filing); and Corporate governance.The book in its present format will prove more useful to students and others.

Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance. In both theory and practice, a team of senior managers ran the corporation with little or no interference from other stakeholders. Shareholders were essentially powerless and typically quiescent. Boards of directors were little more than rubber stamps.
Today, the corporate governance landscape looks vastly different. The fall-out from the post-Enron scandal and implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have resulted in shareholder activism becoming more widespread, while many observers call for even greater empowerment. The notion that the board of directors is a mere pawn of top management is increasingly invalid, and as a result, modern boards of directors typically are smaller than their antecedents, meet more often, are more independent from management, own more stock, and have better access to information.
The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the emerging board-centered system of corporate governance. It draws on doctrinal legal analysis, behavioral economic insights into how individuals and groups make decisions, the work of new institutional economics on organizational structure, and management studies of corporate governance. Using those tools, Stephen Bainbridge traces the process by which this new corporate governance system emerged, and explores whether such changes are desirable or effective.

Tuimel jou hart nog nadat Marita van der Vyver jou met haar boek Die hart van ons huis aan haar lewe in Provence bekend gestel het? Hou dan asem op, want met Franse briewe nooi sy lesers nog 'n keer oor haar drumpel. Wat het verander in die Provenkaalse kliphuis met sy persblou hortjies, pienk rose, laventel voor die kombuisvenster en die enorme ou plataanboom langs die hek? Wat het dieselfde gebly? Ja, Marita, haar Franse man, Alain, en die vier kinders woon steeds in Kerkstraat – Rue de l'eglise – van 'n Middeleeuse dorpie. Dis ook somer in Provence – en soos elke somer word al die poskaartprentjies oornag lewend. Lappe laventel so pers dat dit lyk asof derduisende botteltjies kristalviolet per ongeluk uit 'n vragvliegtuig geval het. Goudgeel sonneblomme net waar jy kyk, asof jy pens en pootjies binne-in 'n Van Gogh-skildery beland het. Maar help! Terselfdertyd het 'n bende misdadigers op Marita se Provenkaalse dorpie toegesak! Haar motor word nie net gesteel nie, maar onherstelbaar verniel. En moleste met motors is maar een van die, noem dit maar "interessante", aspekte van haar idilliese bestaan. Daar is ook nog huismoleste, kultuurskokke, ouderdom en ander meer tipies Franse vliee in die salf soos skoolgaan in Frankryk.

Ryna van Rensburg vlug weg van haar verlede na Meeuland, 'n eiland aan die Weskus. Daar is dit Attie Langhans wat haar weer soos 'n vrou laat voel – al lyk hy op die oog af maar stuurs. En gou blyk dit dat die eiland se lief en leed nie los staan van die dorpslewe op die vasteland nie. Waar ontrou en menslikheid, geldgierigheid en goedheid deureengevleg is in 'n vertelling van twee gemeenskappe, wit en bruin. Twee verhale wat uiteindelik hand aan hand loop.

The UK is going through a period of unprecedented constitutional change. There is much unfinished business, and further changes still to come. Where are these changes taking us? In this book, leading political scientists and lawyers forecast the impact of these changes on the UK's key institutions and the constitution as a whole.

When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "progress of science and the useful arts" by granting rights to authors and inventors. Today, when rapid technological evolution accompanies growing wealth inequality and political and social divisiveness, the constitutional goal of "progress" may pertain to more basic, human values, redirecting IP's emphasis to the commonweal instead of private interests. Against Progress considers contemporary debates about intellectual property law as concerning the relationship between the constitutional mandate of progress and fundamental values, such as equality, privacy, and distributive justice, that are increasingly challenged in today's internet age. Following a legal analysis of various intellectual property court cases, Jessica Silbey examines the experiences of everyday creators and innovators navigating ownership, sharing, and sustainability within the internet eco-system and current IP laws. Crucially, the book encourages refiguring the substance of "progress" and the function of intellectual property in terms that demonstrate the urgency of art and science to social justice today.

Gathered here for the first time, a set of Bosman's early writings, ranging from the humorous squibs he wrote as a 16-year-old schoolboy for 'The Sunday Times' through to his provocative, experimental short pieces of the 1930s.

The exercise of public power by the military in civilian Western democracies such as Australia and the United States demonstrates a tendency toward failure in responsibility for moral behavior. Pauline Collins argues that a different system of military criminal investigation and discipline outside the civilian justice system enables the military to operate like a coterie and can lead to a failure in the requisite moral standard of behavior required of military personnel and maintaining civilian institutional control. Collins argues that the justifications for separate treatment of weakens both the military standing and the practice of civilian control of the military as well as leading to an overall decline in morality and values in a democratic society.

Since the economic crisis unfolded in 2008, the European Union economic governance framework has been profoundly transformed from a legal perspective. The EU has adopted new tools, institutions and rules to tackle the changes and is arguably better prepared to combat any future crises. This book analyses the basic legal framework of EU economic governance and considers the economic underpinnings which underlie legal institutions in this area. It uses analytical dialectics as a method of analysis and the paradigm of 'law as credibility' as the main model through which the substantive parts of EU economic governance are accounted for. Important issues such as access, exit and expulsion from the euro, the independence of the European Central Bank, the Stability and Growth Pact, bail-outs to member states, and the EU's economic strategy are addressed in a clear, critical and innovative way.

Herman Human loop hom vas in die skynheiligheid van die volwasse wereld. Skielik lyk hul dorp vir hom anders. Kerk en skool probeer die jong boompies buig en Herman raak al hoe meer hardekwas. Hy kyk ook met nuwe oe na vroue: Met Ashia ontdek Herman sy eie seksualiteit. En dan is daar Sandra wat saam met hom in die wiskundeklas is en ook belangstelling toon. Ek dink aan Ashia, ek dink aan Sandra. Waar ek in my lewe gesmag het na een vrou sit ek nou met twee, en ek is, vind ek tot my verbasing uit, vasbeslote om albei te bearbei. Hierdie besef skok my die hele Vrydag uit my wentelbaan uit. Die een baken wat Herman het, is sy pa. En dit is op die dag wanneer Herman teenoor Ds. Weltevreden te staan kom, dat sy pa se voorbeeld hom help om te kies wat reg is en nie bloot korrek is nie. Dit is dan dat hy weet dat 'n mens met jou gewete moet kies, al verklaar jy jouself voelvry in die proses.

“Ek sweer by jou Yoruba, dat jy eendag weer 'n waardige plek in ons huis sal he!” So belowe Theuns Meyer die houtmasker – wat volgens stamtradisie net deur welvarende mense besit mag word – toe hy dit na sy pa se vonnis uit hul bankrotboedel red. Maar op Sandbaai waar hulle tydelik in hul oom se vakansiehuisie intrek, en sy ma probeer om met naaldwerk kop bo water te hou, word die moontlikheid al meer onwaarskynlik. Theuns was kaptein van hul skool se onderwaterhokkiespan en 'n ervare duiker. Nou kan hy hoogstens gaan duik om van sy woede en frustrasie ontslae te raak. Totdat hy vir Ras Payne op die strand raakloop – 'n perlemoenstroper met etiek – soos hy homself beskryf. Ras trek hom geleidelik in by sy bedrywighede totdat Theuns besef dat die see se skulpgoud die enigste weg uit hul gemors is. Theuns en Ras vind op 'n vreemde manier by mekaar aanklank in hierdie wereld van agterdog en leuens. En elke keer dat hy sy deel in Yoruba se hol houtgesig bere, weet hy dat daar nie omdraai is nie.

Die skrywer herskep die alledaagshede wat elke huisvrou en ma sal herken: hoe vind jy balans tussen die verpligtinge van man en kinders en die eise wat daar aan 'n predikantsvrou gestel word? Veral as jy boonop 'n drang het om skrywer te word. Maar dan kry die vertelling 'n meevoerende krag wanneer ernstige krisisse opduik: Haar man kry 'n senuwee-ineenstorting. Meer nog: Haar skoondogter oorleef 'n ernstige motorongeluk, maar doen permanente fisiese en psigiese letsels op. En sy, die skrywer, is midde-in haar mees ambisieuse skryfprojek ooit. Hier bereik haar eg-menselike verhaal 'n besondere diepte- en hoogtepunt: 'n dieptepunt van smart, maar ook 'n hoogtepunt van kreatiwiteit.

This book in the Anniversary Edition is edited by Stephen Gray. For the first time the complete poems of Herman Charles Bosman are gathered together here in one volume. This collection contains all the 120 pieces that are recoverable, written between his student days in the mid-1920s and his untimely death in 1951. His four pamphlets - The Blue Princess, Mara, Rust and Jesus, an Ode - are reproduced without cuts. Included also are several previously uncollected poems left in manuscript, together with his experimental prose-poem "Gardenias", which led to a court case in 1932 and its suppression.Arranged in chronological order, this sequence reveals a romantic and prophetic Bosman, his growing devotion to a democratic African and the south, by turns erotic and esoteric, while he develops the deeply lyrical and humorous skills he considered the essence of his life's work. To supplement the poetry, also included is a selection of a dozen essays he wrote on the topic of its application to the turmoil of the 1930's and the artistic revival of the Postwar World centred on Johannesburg. With an introduction, illustration and notes on the texts. Wild Seed is die eerste volledige versameling van al Herman Charles Bosman se gedigte en sluit ook voorheen ongepubliseerde gedigte in. Ook ingesluit is die eksperimentele prosagedig "Gardenias" wat tot 'n hofsaak gelei het in 1932 en tot die verbod daarop. Die gedigte is in chronologiese volgorde en openbaar 'n romantiese en profetiese Bosman en sy liefde vir Afrika. Daar is ook 'n twaalftal essays oor die digkuns ingesluit.

The recognition of judgments lies at the heart of all litigation: without it judgments are meaningless and litigation becomes a dog with neither bite nor bark. The title has both a Southern African and international flavour, which is wholly appropriate, given the increase in both local and international trade since 1994. This increase in trade brings with it increased litigation, locally and internationally, making this book a necessary addition to any practicing lawyer's library - especially those who consider themselves to be 'commercial lawyers'. The references to local statutes, international conventions and treaties as well as authorities with which the title abounds are of immeasurable assistance to the lawyer involved in the complex and intricate field of private international law.

This is the absorbing (and often shocking) story of the life of the most famous and best loved writer in South Africa of the first half of the twentieth century. Bosman was born in the Cape in 1905, schooled in Johannesburg and trained as a teacher, then sent to a backveld school - the people he met there and the observations he made were the source for the stories in his bestselling Mafeking Road. After a sensational trial, found guilty of murdering his step-brother in cold blood, he served his term in Pretoria Central Prison - the source of his classic Cold Stone Jug. During his years of exile in Paris and London and when he returned to South Africa to make a popular career as a sly commentator, he produced A cask of Jerepigo. Before his untimely death in 1951, he became the country's best loved humorist. In this biography Bosman's extraordinary career is reconstructed from documents and his papers, to present the most revealing and explicit portrait of South Africa's most controversial author. Gray's investigation has thrown new light on many aspects of Bosman's life - some of his outrageous actions will astound his many faithful readers. Bosman himself ) with which Gray at times paints this fuller-than-ever-before portrait of his subject.

The rock alphabet explores the linked tales of Ivy and Flin, whose paths cross in Ivy's quest for mysterious rock paintings that have gone missing. Both are misplaced young people who struggle to fit in; their stories explore loss, memory and reclamation, and how the past is entwined in the present. When Flin is only a few years old, he and his older brother are discovered wandering in a remote mountain range by Beattie Fro, daughter of a renowned archaelologist. Although aloof an unmaternal, Beattie brings the children home. But the silent older brother is difficult, and runs away to the mountain; fatefully Beattie follows. Flin is haunted into adulthood by the voice of his brother, calling him back to the feared wilderness.