Directors’ Duties and Liabilities: A Practical Overview in Guernsey
Description
This webinar provides directors with a clear and practical understanding of their core duties and liabilities under Guernsey law. It explores both statutory and common law responsibilities, offering real-world examples of how directors can best discharge their obligations.
The webinar highlights the risks of breach, the consequences of non-compliance, and the safeguards directors can adopt to protect themselves while ensuring high standards of governance and accountability.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.
Content
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Core statutory and fiduciary duties of Guernsey directors
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Consequences of breach: liability, penalties, reputational risks
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Balancing shareholder, regulator, and stakeholder interests
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Practical steps to mitigate risk and protect directors
Presenter
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Gareth Bell Managing Partner at Collas Crill |
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Gareth is a litigation lawyer who specialises in trust, company (including directors' duties), insolvency, professional negligence and other financial services disputes. He also has an active practice in semi-contentious trust matters. A qualified Guernsey advocate, Gareth is the firm's Guernsey Managing Partner. Gareth has been involved in a number of trials in the Royal Court of Guernsey and several appeals to the Court of Appeal and Privy Council. He acted for the successful non-executive director defendants in the long running, multi-billion dollar Carlyle litigation that eventually concluded in 2020. He also recently acted for the Registrar of the Chambre de Discipline (the disciplinary body for Advocates) on the first ever appeal of a disciplinary matter to the Court of Appeal, where he was successful. Gareth qualified as solicitor of England and Wales in 2001 with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain in London and joined Collas Crill in 2005. He qualified as a Guernsey Advocate in 2008 and became a partner of Collas Crill in 2010. Education: LLB (2.1) (University of Liverpool, 1998); LPC (Distinction) (College of Law, Chester 1999); Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Françaises et Normandes (Caen, 2006) |