Of course, it is the company directors who are most to blame for allowing it.
Prior to 1998, company directors caught breaking competition law faced nothing worse than a reprimand.
Courts should have the option of jailing company directors convicted of safety-related offences, he said.
Currently company directors have no legal obligation to comply with health and safety laws.
Mostly, the statutes that govern Delaware's system of corporate law openly delegate decision-making authority to company directors.
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The suit is a typical derivative action, in which lawyers sue company directors on behalf of the corporation itself.
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Calisto Tanzi , the founder of Parmalat, went on trial Wednesday alongside other former company directors, lawyers and accountants.
He doesn't have a title to lose, but he may be wary of threats to bar people as company directors.
The business secretary has launched moves which could lead to three former directors of HBOS being banned from serving as company directors.
The second prefers to leave this decision to company directors, who are elected by shareholders to run a firm on their behalf.
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But even diehard theorists have to concede that company directors trading in shares of their own companies tend to beat the market.
Predictably, Asia's market meltdown slashed share trading among Hong Kong company directors.
In British or American takeovers, shareholders can easily sue if they feel that any other shareholders, including company directors, have been especially favoured.
Company directors and staff had words such as puppy killer, murderer and scum daubed on their houses, cars or on the roads nearby.
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The war between Carl Icahn, who wants a seat on the Motorola board, and company directors, who don't want Icahn, is going to shareholder's mailboxes.
Unimpressed, investors withheld 42% of votes for company directors in protest.
Other amendments made this week include informing company directors if their staff are asked to hand over the passwords or encryption keys used to protect e-mail.
He was critical of company directors, saying too many were prepared to tighten the belts of workers, while boardroom pension schemes continued to guarantee huge payouts.
Three quarters of company directors said they thought the new law would discourage employers from taking on women of child bearing age, in a recent survey.
As successful executives, they have deep pockets and, as company directors or officers, also rely upon insurance policies or company bylaws to pay for their legal costs.
It is almost as if company directors have been complaining so loudly in order to disguise the fact not, surely, in order to prevent others sharing their smoked salmon?
It seeks to remove legislative provisions that can prevent people with mental health conditions from serving as Members of Parliament, members of the devolved legislatures, jurors, or company directors.
Next, peers should complete their consideration of the Mental Health (Discrimination) Bill - which removes laws allowing people to be disqualified from serving as MPs, jurors and company directors.
First, company directors want to align the interests of their managers with the interests of the folks who own the companies -- important as more and more people become shareholders.
But there's been little use of the regulator's power to withhold "fit and proper person" approval for those in senior financial positions, nor the business department's power to ban people as company directors.
In particular, the low insider interest may mean that stocks are not trading at a good discount to their net asset value, or there are poor earnings prospects in the view of company directors.
The CBI supports some of the report's recommendations but is warning that changing takeover rules would be a "big step" which should not be rushed and that remuneration of company directors should be a matter for shareholders, not government.
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Then peers turn to the committee-stage discussion of the Mental Health (Discrimination) (No. 2) Bill - this is the private member's bill pushed through the Commons by the Conservative Gavin Barwell, to abolish various forms of legal discrimination against people who have, or who have had mental health problems - which may prevent them serving as company directors, jurors or even MPs.
About 900 pensions managers, fund trustees and company finance directors are meeting to discuss the current pensions crisis.
Accountants' assertions that recent consolidation has been client-driven were put into question when Britain's One Hundred Group of top-company finance directors expressed concern about it.
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