The new derivative action under the Companies Act
Subtitle: guidelines for judicial discretion
By: Maleka Femida Cassim, MBBCh (cum laude) LLB (cum laude) LLM (cum laude) (Witwatersrand) PhD (Cape Town), Attorney and Notary Public of the High Court, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pretoria (NRF-Rated Researcher)
Publisher: Juta and Company
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Claremont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781485109754
Subjects: Stockholders' derivative actions; South Africa; Companies Act, 2008 (South Africa)
Notes: includes bibliographic reference, appendices and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The procedure for the statutory derivative action; title: Discretion of the court to grant leave for a derivative action : foundational policies and principles; title: The criterion of good faith; title: Trial of a serious question; title: The best interests of the company; title: The rebuttable presumption : defects and cures; title: Shareholder ratification; title: Orders of costs, and other hurdles and obstacles; title: Overlap with the oppression remedy.