in protecting the rights and responsibilities of minority shareholders
             as well as explore the problems that have occurred in the past.
             While the paper explores the efforts of United Kingdom law when it
             comes to safeguarding the interests of minority shareholders it also
             examines other legal systems to see if they do a better job. France,
             the United States and others are compared and contrasted to see how
             the United Kingdom system measures up against them.
             The role played by shareholders in any company can be varied.
             Shareholders are individuals who own shares of the company in
             question. One person can have many shares, or one share and groups of
             people can go in together and purchase shares of any company in
             question. The shareholder is only invented in companies that are
             public. This means that the individual public members can purchase
             pieces of the company. When this happens the shareholders are provided
             certain rights and responsibilities. Majority shareholders and
             minority shareholders have similar interests but differences in the
             power they have in the company. This is based on the shareholder being
             a majority or a minority shareholder in status. The majority
             shareholders often have protections simply by virtue of being majority
             shareholders. That majority status gives them voting power and clout
             that can outnumber the desires and wishes of those who are in the
             category of minority shareholders.
             This can create a situation in which the minority sh
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