Minority Shareholders in UK Law

  • Meyer v Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1958
    ... ... invoked, to show not only that there has been oppression of the minority shareholders of a company but also that it has been the affairs of the ... ...
  • William Kurt Wallersteiner (Plaintiff Appellant) M. J. G Moir (Defendant Respondent) M. J. G Moir (Plaintiff on counterclaim) William Kurt Wallersteiner Hartley Baird Ltd and Another (Defendants on counterclaim)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 January 1975
    ... ... He raised the matter at shareholders' meetings, but was abruptly cut off. The only way in which I he has been ... Moir's counterclaim. he is a "minority shareholder seeking to redress a wrong done to the Company ... ...
  • Re Elgindata Ltd (No 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 June 1992
    ... ... to Mr and Mrs Rowland for the court to leave them 'locked in' as minority shareholders in the company." ... 10 Later the ... ...
  • Phipps v Boardman
    • House of Lords
    • 03 November 1966
    ... ... I was only too glad. Here was I holding 8,000 shares a minority interest in a company where the directors were unfriendly, and, having had ... of the weakness of the Companies Act with regard to minority shareholders, as soon as I could see the prospect of getting friendly directors and ... ...
  • Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ... ... are statutory, a company is a legal entity distinct from its shareholders. It has rights and liabilities of its own which are distinct from those of ... there being no third party interests engaged, such as unconnected minority shareholders or creditors. The Vice-Chancellor concluded that the ... ...
  • Bamford v Bamford
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 January 1969
    ... ... allotment, the defendant director hadissued a circular to the shareholders, of whom there were a good many in number outside the family on both sides ... the company is legally competent to deal, is binding upon the minority, and consequently upon the company, and every share holder has a perfect ... ...
  • Fulham Football Club (1987) Ltd v Sir David Richards and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 July 2011
    ... ... The FAPL offered to place the matter on the agenda of a shareholders' meeting which was scheduled to take place at the beginning of June 2010 ... with disputes between the members of private companies (usually minority shareholders) who may be the subject of oppression but are prevented by ... ...
  • CVC/Opportunity Equity Partners Ltd v Demarco Almeida
    • Privy Council
    • 21 March 2002
    ... ... The respondent ("Mr Demarco") is a minority shareholder with a single share ... 2 The ... to accept the substitution of another company with different shareholders without accounting for any benefit which they might themselves obtain by ... ...
  • Prudential Assurance Company Ltd (Respondents (Plaintiffs) v (1) Newman Industries Ltd, (Respondents (1st Defendants) (2) Alan Frank Bartlett and Others (Appellants (2nd & 3rd Defendants)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 1981
    ... ... Limited (On Behalf of Themselves and all the Other Shareholders of the First Defendant Other than the Second and Fourth Defendants) ... furnished by the circular with regard to the size of the minority shareholdings which were to be acquired in associated companies, the ... ...
  • Re Bird Precision Bellows Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 July 1985
    ... ... the petitioners and the respondents, who were the majority shareholders, for the exploitation of certain processes with which the principal ... at a price which is discounted because they represent a minority holding. It seems to me that some general observations can usefully be ... ...
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