주주의 열람청구권에 대한 일고찰

In the large-sized corporation system of today, Shareholders are not involved in the management of the company, the Board is to enforce the company's business. The shareholders are play the role of a management supervisor. Shareholders with respect to the illegal management of the Board of Directors, inspection rights about books and records of the corporation have been recognized as a typical way of obtaining the information of the company. The United States, Japan, and our country, the provisions of inspection rights about books and records of the corporation, there are some differences. For a more workable, it is necessary that the current Commercial Code provisions be amended. With reference to the US and Japanese law and case, it is presented for at least three of the amendments, such as the following. First, inspection rights of shareholders about books and records of the corporation have become a minority shareholder rights 3 of 100 of the total issued shares by the possibility of abuse. This rights have the character of as basic information area for the other shareholder rights exercise, such as a representative litigation of shareholders. However, derivative action when considering that it is a one-hundredth, it is necessary to alleviate the minority exercise requirements by a factor of at least 1 of 100 of the total issued shares. Second, when the shareholders to exercise, such as inspection rights about books and records, the Commercial Code in connection with the so-called proper purpose is not provided with the provisions of the expressly. It must be resolved by the interpretation. However, it is clearly defined the limits of such a proper purpose in the law there is a meaning. If you want the exercise of inspection rights about books and records as the exercise of minority shareholder’s rights, it is considered to be so as not to unduly denied. On the other hand, for the exercise of undue inspection rights about books and records, it is believed that the corporation can reject this. There is a need to clarify the role to clearly adjust the interests of minority shareholders and the corporation by the legislation. Third, the case of the current inspection rights about books and records, in spite of the provisional disposition decision in court, there is very often substantially way that the corporation can interfere or rejected it. Just delaying the least inspection time corporation can obtain a substantial benefit. The court, in the case of such provisional disposition application for the inspection rights about books and records, it is necessary to admit the more aggressive indirect coercion. Try to expect a change in the positive court attitude.