Breckland Group Holdings Ltd v London and Suffolk Properties

Breckland Group Holdings Ltd v London & Suffolk Properties Ltd [1989] BCLC 100 is a UK company law case, concerning the right of a majority shareholder to litigate in the company's name.

A majority shareholder attempted to start litigation in the company's name against the managing director.

The board challenged the litigation, arguing it had no authority to do so even with a shareholder resolution.

80 to the conduct of the business by the directors, it is not a matter where the general meeting can intervene.This was a contentious opinion, and most academic treatises view the law to be that in fact a majority shareholder may by ordinary resolution bring litigation.

This is seen to follow implicitly from the rule in Foss v Harbottle, and the House of Lords judgment in Alexander Ward v Samyang.