“You are a shareholder in a company but are then removed from the register of members. Can you go ahead and present a section 994 petition and pursue it to trial? If so, in what circumstances? Or must you first establish your locus standi by issuing separate proceedings seeking rectification of the register? The conventional view has been that you have to pursue this latter course. But that orthodoxy has been challenged by the landmark judgment of ICC Judge Greenwood in Re Contingent and Future Technologies Ltd [2024] BCC 22 , as Daniel Lightman KC explains in his new article for New Law Journal, “Non-members and s 994 petitions: a novel approach.”

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