Minority Shareholders' Rights - LAWS8114

Description

LLM Specialisations

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Course Aims

• the nature of the rights which minority shareholders can enforce directly;
• the extent to which and way in which minority shareholders can enforce the company's rights against its directors and third parties;
• the circumstances in which oppression or unfair prejudice to minority shareholders' interests can give rise to statutory remedies;
• the remedies available to oppressed.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate knowledge of the core principles of the law relating to minority shareholders, including a critical understanding of the policy considerations informing the law in this area;
• demonstrate the skills of analysis and evaluation which are required to engage in practical and scholarly legal research. This will include skills necessary to plan effective research strategies; collect, retrieve and collate relevant information; analyse, evaluate and interpret information and report ;
• recognise and reflect on ethical and justice issues that are likely to arise in professional practice in this area;
• identify and formulate legal issues in this area and engage in critical analysis of those issues;
• be able to communicate their understanding and analysis of legal and policy issues in this area to others in both legal and non-legal formats;
• by participating in class and completion of essay to develop skills in identifying when a minority shareholder is entitled to relief; the most attractive relief and the implications of obtaining that relief;

Assessment