INVALIDITY OF DECISIONS OF GENERAL MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES: ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL PRACTICE

The article examines the activities of companies, their bodies, disputes, delves in connection with the exercise of corporate rights, holding a general meeting, making decisions, appealing to the courts, as well as compliance with rules relevant to the founders and participants of companies. Disputed situations on observance of the procedure of convening and holding a general meeting, their influence on decision-making, their legitimacy are studied. Violated corporate rights of the participant are protected by invalidating the decision of the general meeting as the highest body of society. The article identifies the problematic aspects of disputes over the invalidation of decisions of the general meeting of companies. Some grounds for invalidating the decisions of the general meeting of companies are analyzed, the shortcomings of their legislative regulation and the peculiarities of practical application by economic courts of various instances, especially the court of cassation, are revealed. The study conducted in the article contains an analysis and generalization of judicial practice in resolving corporate disputes, which revealed inconsistencies in the approaches of courts to law enforcement, taking into account the position of the Supreme Court, which allowed to develop recommendations for improving judicial practice. Ukrainian corporate law leaves room for finding new solutions and ideas for protection in corporate relations, despite the latest legislative novelties. The article outlines the ways of development of judicial practice using, in particular, comparative law, dialectical and applied methods. Thus, the basis for improving the legal regulation of this category of corporate disputes should be the experience of the existing case law of the Supreme Court. Emphasis is placed on such problematic issues as to who can be the subject when applying to the court for invalidation of the decision, respectively, what is the range of plaintiffs and defendants, cases are presented and analyzed in which the plaintiffs are not only members but also their successors (heirs). Peculiarities of application of special statute of limitations to claims in case of invalidity of decisions of the general meeting, especially in the context of application of special statute of limitations to the relations which have arisen earlier are investigated.