Shareholders and Fraud: Drastic Changes in New Bill: How Market can be Controlled: Vital Question of Management: The bill now before Parliament designed to amend the law relating to joint stock companies was dealt with yesterday by the Law Society at the Provincial meeting at Sheffield … … The president said the Bill imposed greater responsibility upon directors who would find difficulty hereafter in sheltering themselves from liability merely on the ground that a company’s embarrassments arose without actual default in the performance of their own duties … Among the members of council of the Society present were, besides the President (Mr. Cecil Allen Coward), five past presidents, Sir Charles H. Morton, Sir Robert W. Dibdin, Sir Arthur C. Peake, Mr. R. A. Pinsent, and Mr. A. H. Coley.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948