Questions tagged [companies]
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Must companies keep records of internal messages (emails, Slack messages, MS Teams chats, etc.) and if so, for how long?
Must companies keep records of internal messages (emails, Slack messages, MS Teams chats, etc.) in case some court later asks for it, and if so, for how long do they have to keep it? I'm mostly interested in the United States.
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Would it be illegal for Companies House to require a response to a letter on registration?
It is a thing that people set up fraudulent companies using strangers addresses without authorisation. Companies House appear to say they are legally blocked from preventing this:
Thousands of households have had their addresses unknowingly used…
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Is it lawful for two brothers to work as executives at competing public companies?
Let's say Bruce is CFO at Exxon Mobil and his brother Clark works under the CTO at BP.
Considering possible implications of the fact that these brothers are expected as siblings to have a reasonably close relationship, would this scenario be…
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When does a company "know" something?
For example, suppose a criminal offence contains elements of knowledge, like Violence for securing entry to promises under section 6 of the Criminal Law Act, which requires:
use or threat of violence to secure entry to premises, whether violence…
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Payment in exchange for shares
The act and section in contention are: "Company Act s.585 (1) A public company must not accept at any time, in payment up of its shares or any premium on them, an undertaking given by any person that he or another should do work or perform services…
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Joint liability for flat occupant and contracted rent
Three months ago my friend Bob moved into a flat paid for by Adam, an investor in the start-up company that Bob and others co-founded (long story). Adam signed a 6-month lease with the landlord.
Relations between Adam and Bob's company have now…
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Criminal offences and corporate guilt
S. 1(6) of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 states:
Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any…
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