7.3 Shareholder Rights under Corporate Governance

The shareholders' armoury (the listed life's powers): the voting rights (the AGM's voice — the resolutions' classes), the information rights (the accounts'-and-register's inspection), the dividend rights (the distribution's claim), the pre-emption faces (the rights issue's protection — the dilution's shield), the minority protections (the oppression-and-mismanagement remedies; the derivative action's possibility — Company Law's detail, LAW5404's cross-reference; the class-action's comparative faces), the takeover protections (the exit opportunities of the acquisition regimes), and the institutional shareholders' stewardship (the pension-and-fund investors' engagement — the modern stewardship codes' face). The securities-market's addition: the exit right itself — the liquidity as the ultimate shareholder power (the sell-the-shares verdict on the governance's failure).