86 Abstract Statutory liability of members and other persons for debts of business corporations (including supranational corporations) The thesis aims to introduce the economic rationale behind the legal concept of limited liability, including the risks for creditors attached thereto, and to analyse the legal instruments designed to remedy the impacts of its misuse or abuse. Accordingly, this thesis attempts to point to the shortcomings of the current legal framework and to offer a solution thereto. For this purpose the author uses the traditional methods of legal interpretation and draws upon the laws of the United Kingdom, which inspired the authors of the Czech Corporations Act 2012 in many respects. After the opening chapter, which introduces the current legal framework for limited liability of shareholders and defines legal relations of company's agents towards third persons, the historic development of limited liability in the United Kingdom will be outlined in the second chapter. The introduction of limited liability in 19th Century was accompanied by intense society-wide debate, the findings of which will help to understand the limited liability in its wider context and will form the ground for the following assessment of its benefits and risks for creditors of limited liability companies. Third...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:342418 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Trojan, Ivo |
| Contributors | Čech, Petr, Eichlerová, Kateřina |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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