Shareholder in dissolved Ltd company

[petejenkins01]

Hi,
I'm a minority shareholder in a ltd company which I found out on the Companies House website has been recently dissolved.

Can anybody advise on the legal situation regarding the fact that I have not been informed of that decision and whether any recompense could be achieved.

I have not been actively involved with the company since 1998.

Any information or advice would be appreciated.

regards

Pete

[MikeH]

Were final accounts submitted? Ask to see a copy of them. This may give you an idea if there was any money left in the company. Did you have a shareholders agreement in place? If not as a minority shareholder you would be outvoted on any business decisions anyway.

[petejenkins01]

Hi, many thanks for taking the time to reply to my query. Checking Companies house I got the latest accounts which were dated for the year ended Sept 2005. The company was dissolved April 2008.
I was not informed of this,and reading the Companies House document GBW2 it would appear that I should have received a form 652a (Application for striking off) .No such form was sent.
Companies House apparently do not get involved in these issues and advise getting legal advice.
One question I would like to know --is there not some Government body one could approach to ensure that the company abides to the regulations as laid down,or suffer the consquences.
onc e again thank you for your time
regards
Pete Jenkins