To: All shareholders
Please support the UK Shareholders' Association demonstration to be
held outside the Houses of Parliament on 6th July (see the
announcement below from UKSA).
It's up to you to make it happen. Be active and seize the day!
Thank you.
Justin Jones
For SmartLogik Action Group
An Invite to UKSA Members to visit Westminster on 6th July to call for
Justice for Nominee Shareholders
Members may be aware that the House of Lords have amended the Company
Law Reform Bill to ensure that nominee shareholders will be
enfranchised by all listed companies (ie. shareholders will receive
all their rights), but this is being undermined by lobbying in the
House of Commons. The Government may reject or undermine the Lords
amendment unless MPs support our position. Gavin Oldham of the Share
Centre, who has been active in promoting the views supported by UKSA,
has arranged for a demonstration to make sure Parliament is aware of
the feelings of private investors on this issue. The Bill is now in
the Committee stage in the Commons and this matter will be decided in
the near future so now is the time to show our feelings on this topic.
Join us at Westminster
All UKSA members are invited to join a public meeting on 6th July at
3pm in Old Palace Yard, opposite the St Stephen's entrance to the
Houses of Parliament. If you can attend, could you please send an
email to shareholderrights@... and include your local MPs
name if you know it.
Placards will be provided, and you may be able to lobby your local MP
directly. We expect the demonstration to be good-natured and orderly,
but nevertheless to convey to the Government that personal
shareholders holding their shares in nominees must be granted
equivalent communication and corporate governance rights to those
whose shares are maintained on share registers. The opportunity to
change Company Law comes rarely, about once in a generation, and it is
vitally important to show the strength of feeling on this issue.
I do hope you will therefore be able to join us to achieve an
effective demonstration on Thursday 6th July.
Roger Lawson
Communications Director
UK Shareholders' Association
BM UKSA
London WC1N 3XX
Tel. 0870 70 60 600
Email: uksa@...
Website: www.uksa.org.uk