Leader: Professor Elizabeth Boros

Offered

Not offered in 2008

Synopsis

Principal topics include: Self help - Institutional shareholder activisim; individual shareholder activism; access to information; the corporate consititution; and shareholders' agreements. Litigious remedies: oppression; winding up; common law limitations on majority voting power; the statutory derivative action; and compulsory acquisition of minority shareholdings.

Objectives

Students who have successfully completed the subject will have:

1. a thorough knowledge of the common problems experienced by members of various types of company;
2. an understanding of strategies for preventing or remedying those problems without recourse to litigation;
3. an understanding of the litigious remedies available to combat those problems;
4. an understanding of likely trends for future development of the law relating to shareholders' remedies;
5. enhanced research skills, as a result of undertaking a substantial piece of writing on an aspect of shareholders' remedies.

Assessment

Research Paper (7500 words): 100%

Contact hours

One 2-hour seminar per week

Prerequisites

LAW4174 or LAW7277 or equivalent.