Dispute Resolution in Family Companies
Dispute Resolution in Family Companies
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家族企业纠纷解决
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2013
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L. Boulle
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J. Farrar;S. Watson;L. Boulle
1720年的《泡沫法案》使得公司章程相对难以获得。作为对《泡沫法》的回应，在世纪中期通过注册成立公司的一般权利之前，英国发展了一种早期形式的非法人公司。设立非法人公司的和解契约几乎总是载有解决争端的条款。一旦通过注册成立公司成为可能，公司的内部治理就由公司章程决定。允许联合王国公司起草自己的条款或采用《法令》附表中的规定。争端解决条款没有被列入，但仲裁条款却经常被列入公司章程，从世纪后期开始，在当时发展起来的小型私营公司的章程中。这些条款的通过失败与其可接受性的问题同时发生。尽管这些可撤销性问题可能不再存在，但现代公司章程中很少有争议解决条款。本文对家族企业争议解决的法律的框架进行了考察和批判，并主张将争议解决条款以某种形式纳入公司章程。这篇文章包含两个简单的实证调查，表明未能在宪法中包括解决争端的条款，以及缺乏其他解决家族企业争端的机制，使法院成为解决争端的唯一途径。
The Bubble Act of 1720 made corporate charters relatively difficult to obtain. As a response to the Bubble Act and prior to the general right to incorporation by registration in the mid-Nineteenth Century, an early form of unincorporated company developed in the United Kingdom. The deeds of settlement creating the unincorporated companies almost always contained dispute resolution clauses. Once incorporation by registration became possible, the internal governance of companies was determined by articles of association. UK companies were permitted to draft their own articles or to adopt provisions found in the schedules to the Acts. Dispute resolution clauses were not included but arbitration clauses were nevertheless often included in articles of association for companies for a period from the late Nineteenth Century onwards in the articles of smaller private companies that developed at that time. The demise of the adoption of the provisions coincided with questions about their enforceability. Even though those enforceability issues probably no longer exist, dispute resolution clauses are rarely found in the constitutions of modern companies.This article examines and critiques the legal framework around dispute resolution in family-owned companies and argues for the inclusion of dispute resolution clauses in some form in constitutions of companies. The article contains two simple empirical surveys that show that the failure to include dispute resolution clauses in constitutions and the absence of other dispute resolution mechanisms for family companies leaves the courts as the only recourse for resolution of disputes.