Company law.

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COMPANY LAW

ASSIGNMENT 1

CONTENTS

Page 3 Terms of Reference

Page 4 Summary

Page 5-9 Main Body

Page 8 References, bibliography

Terms of Reference

This paper is base on the concept of 'Minority Shareholder Protection'. Minority shareholder protection is one of the most complicated areas of company law. During the course of this paper I will attempt to:

Identify minority shareholder's right.

Analyses the legal protections of minority shareholder.

Identify the legal protection of minority shareholders.

Look at cases where the concept has been used and the decisions.

decide whether the concept achieves its purpose.

Summary

Decisions of directors or shareholders are normally taken on the basis of majority vote. If shareholder happen o find himself/herself in the minority, there is not normally anything that he/she can do about it. However, the law provides protection for the minority shareholders, although that is very difficult and very expensive to enforce minority rights. Shareholder disputes can be enormously expensive to resolve because lawyers have to review the whole history of company before advising and because both sides can become