What are the rights of shareholders in a company?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mananquil v. Philippine Chronicle Newspaper Ltd., 2001 BCSC 1257 (CanLII):
Generally there are no shareholder rights to participate in the day to day management of a company: see Drove v. Mansvelt, [1998] B.C.J. No. 3221 (B.C.S.C.).
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