Partnership Law (5th Edition)

Description

Partnership Law: The Modern Law of Firms Limited Partnerships and LLP’s, 5th edition is a comprehensive guide to the modern law of Partnerships, in England and Wales.

An authoritative text written by acknowledged leading barristers in the field, it covers all the practical issues inherent in setting up, running and dissolving a partnership and provides a definitive statement of the law using terminology relevant to business practice. It provides practical answers to all questions that might arise in relation to partnerships as well as questions that can arise in disputes between parties, ex-partners and outsiders.

Its coverage is so comprehensive that if a question has ever been considered by the English jurists or in the English (and most Commonwealth) courts then reference to it will be found within Partnership Law.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Partnership in general
2. Chapter 2 Whether there is a partnership and whether a person is a partner
3. Chapter 3 Capacity
4. Chapter 4 Illegality
5. Chapter 5 Holding out
6. Chapter 6 Sub-partnerships and group partnerships
7. Chapter 7 The partnership agreement
8. Chapter 8 Partnership assets and liabilities
9. Chapter 9 Partnership capital and partners’ capital
10. Chapter 10 The partnership share
11. Chapter 11 The duty of good faith
12. Chapter 12 Internal management
13. Chapter 13 Discrimination
14. Chapter 14 Internal partnership dispute
15. Chapter 15 Remedies between partners
16. Chapter 16 Dissolution, retirement and expulsion without court order
17. Chapter 17 Dissolution by court order
18. Chapter 18 The effect of dissolution and retirement
19. Chapter 19 The firm and outsiders
20. Chapter 20 How partners bear the firm’s liabilities
21. Chapter 21 Litigation by and against outsiders
22. Chapter 22 Insolvency – winding up and similar procedures
23. Chapter 23 The insolvent firm’s debts
24. Chapter 24 Limited partnerships
25. Chapter 25 Limited liability partnerships.

Authors Biography

Mark Blackett-Ord is a barrister at 5 Stone Buildings.

Sarah Haren is a barrister at 5 Stone Buildings.