Shareholder Actions

<i>Shareholder Actions</i> is a comprehensive guide to the possible actions shareholders may be entitled to pursue on<br/>whichever side of the dispute they might be involved. As well as unfair prejudice and derivative actions and the many personal actions arising from the Companies Act 2006 the book covers actions based in common law and equity as well as actions based in other statutory law. It also explores occurences of directors owing fiduciary duties directly to shareholders and the 'no reflective loss' rule providing a clear view of its scope but also its limitations.<br/><br/>The book refers to judgments in other related jurisdictions when it is necessary to substantiate a submission not already fully and authoritatively addressed by English law. Scottish cases are referred to where the House of Lords or Supreme Court have dealt with an issue or where the point of law overlaps with English law.<br/><br/>There are separate chapters on taxation issues shareholder claims in Australia due the large cross pollination between English and Australian law and for comparative purposes on Canada where a very different approach is taken with its common law based system and South Africa.<br/><br/>In addition to an expanded section on procedure with detailed consideration of the availability of interlocutory relief the new 3rd edition also covers significant developments in case law that there have been since the 2nd edition including in relation to: <br/><br/>- Directors' duties eg <i>Julien v Evolving Technologies; Popely v Popely; Auden McKenzie (Pharma) Ltd v Patel; Re System Building Services Group; Dickinson v NAL Realisations (Staffordshire) Ltd</i>and in the continuing <i>Sharp v Blank</i> litigation<br/>- Remedies following directors' breaches of duties eg <i>CPS v Aquila Advisory Ltd</i> and in <i>Interactive Technology v Fester</i> <br/>- Derivative claims eg <i>Sevilleja Garcia v Marex Financial Ltd</i> and <i>Homes of England Ltd v Nick Bellman (Holdings) Ltd</i> <br/>- Unfair prejudice petitions eg <i>Re G&G Properties Ltd; re Bankside Hotels Ltd aka</i><i>Griffith v Gourgey; George v McCarthy</i>and <i>Allnutt v Nags Head Reading Ltd</i><br/>- Just and equitable winding up eg <i>Chu v Lau</i><br/>- The doctrine of the non-recoverability of reflective loss eg the decisions of both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in the important case of <i>Sevilleja Garcia v Marex Financial Ltd</i> where this was considered and ultimately refined; and <i>Re Hut Group Ltd </i>aka <i>Zedra Trust Co (Jersey) Ltd v Hut Group Ltd</i> <br/>- Access to company registers eg <i>Houldsworth Village Management v Barton</i><br/>- The liability of parent companies for the actions of their subsidiaries in <i>Vedanta Resources Plc and Another v Lungowe</i><br/><i><br/></i>This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.