APPROACHES TO RESOLVING INDIVIDUAL CORPORATE DISPUTES IN COURT PRACTICE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of approaches to the resolution of individual corporate disputes in judicial practice. The article emphasizes that it is during the resolution of disputes in court that approaches to their settlement are formulated. According to the results of the study of the practice of the Supreme Court’s consideration of cases regarding corporate disputes, corporate rights and securities for 2021, it was concluded that the problematic issues of judicial resolution of corporate disputes are their jurisdiction, the proper way to protect the rights of participants in corporate relations, evidence in a corporate dispute and the statute of limitations in such matters. Having analyzed the relevant resolutions of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court, it was noted that the main criteria for demarcating the judicial jurisdiction of corporate disputes are the subject of the dispute and the nature of disputed material legal relations in their totality, at the same time, such a criterion can also be a direct indication in the law of the type of judicial proceedings in which a certain category of cases is considered. Based on the analysis of judicial practice, it is indicated that the proper way of protection in corporate disputes in the event of a dispute regarding the rights to a share in the authorized capital of a limited liability company is a claim for illegal possession of a share in the authorized capital of an limited liability company, and in the event of a dispute regarding composition of members of the limited liability company – determination of the size of the company’s authorized capital and the size of the shares of the members of the company. The article briefly describes judicial practice regarding evidence in corporate disputes, in particular, the application of expert opinion and witness testimony. The opinion is expressed that the position of the Cassation Economic Court of the Supreme Court regarding the impossibility of using a special statute of limitations by analogy with the law to other participants in economic relations, except for those for which it is clearly enshrined in the legislation, is balanced and justified. At the end of the article, it has been concluded that the judicial practice currently created by the Supreme Court is mostly stable, well-founded and consistent, which contributes to ensuring the unity of legal positions on the settlement of corporate disputes.