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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 05:30:43 +0000
From: Road Alert!
To: roadalert@gn.apc.org
Subject: Harassing Corporations - another technique.
Hello...the following procedure is an interesting information gathering and
company-harrassment technique. It's a way any member of the public should
be able to get an appointment to shiff around the company head office of
their choice! (For more on the Companys Act, consult "Basic Law for Road
Protestors" - e-mail if you're interested.)
If loads of people did this to a single company (Costain? BAe? Tarmac?
McDonalds? Where do you start?!), and followed it through, quite a lot of
harrassment could be achieved.
Write those pompous letters now!
RA!
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The procedure is very simple: just write to the Company Secretary
(at the company's head office) saying that you want to exercise your
rights under the Companies Act 1985, section 356, to inspect the Register
of Members (ie shareholders). If you want, you can say that unless he
replies within 14 days, you will start a private prosecution, or you can
keep it fluffy to start with and save the threats for later. I
prefer the latter approach.
You can also ask to inspect the Registers of Directors,
Secretaries and Charges, but there probably won't be much mileage
in inspecting these. The names of Directors and Secretaries are
available from Companies House, and there may not be a Register
of Charges. Charges I think include things like mortgages and secured loans.
If you have a share in the company, you can also inspect the Minute
Books (minutes of AGMs etc) - but you must be a shareholder.
If you want to extract maximum harassment, you can insist that
you are allowed to inspect the original registers, and not copies.
You should also be allowed a reasonable time to inspect and make
copies of the documents, so if you had nothing better to do, you
could spend weeks in there copying out all the documents by hand,
but I think life is probably too short for that.
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