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On which UK registered companies’ behalf can a statutory derivative claim pursuant to sections 260–264 of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) be brought in the English and Welsh courts? The definition of ‘company’ under CA 2006 appears to extend to any company incorporated in the UK (ie companies with registered offices in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland) whereas CA 2006, s 260(1) refers to ‘England and Wales or Northern Ireland’, or is it just companies registered in England and Wales as suggested by para [36] of the (ex parte) decision in Zulfiqur Al-Tanveer Haider v Delma Engineering Projects Company LLC [2023] EWHC 218 (Ch)?
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What remedies are available to a director shareholder of a limited company who is one of three directors, each of whom own a one-third share in the business, and one of the other two director shareholders are excluding them from the business (including by changing the locks to the business property and removing access to the company’s joint account)?
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What action can be brought under section 389 of the Companies Act 2006? Also, how can a director enforce their common law right to access company documents and information for a proper purpose?
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Can a claim be brought against an individual employee or member of a limited liability partnerships (LLP) that has allegedly been negligent as well as bringing a claim against the LLP?
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Where proceedings are issued within the limitation period against an incorrect name for a party, is the claimant required to correct the party's name and what would be the consequences of a failure to do so?
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Associated legal terms

Damages-based agreement

A damages-based agreement is an agreement which complies with the provisions of the Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2013.

Filtering

The process by which relevant documents can be located or irrelevant documents can be removed.

Implementation period

is defined in section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (EU(WA)A 2020) as the ‘transition or implementation period provided for by Part 4 of the withdrawal agreement and beginning with exit day and ending on IP completion day’. ‘Implementation period’ is the UK’s preferred term. The EU’s preferred term for this period is the ‘transition period’.
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