usagi, theft is a criminal matter and the remedies to theft cannot be found in shareholder motions or trying to take control of a pretend company. Even if you start looking at breaches of contract and torts like conversion, you still have the problem that BAKEWELL is only a pretend company. In reality, Ian is operating as a sole trader and no amount of shareholder votes can change that or give you the legal authority to seize control of his assets (and they're his assets, not BAKEWELL's, unless BAKEWELL is a separate legal entity).
Unless BAKEWELL is a legitimate company which has a separate legal existence to Ian himself, then you're all just personal creditors of Ian and have no superior legal standing to any of his other creditors (and apparently he has quite a few). above all people, you should understand that as shareholders in SILVER:TU are effectively in the same situation.
Why should Ian's other creditors not try to block you from actions which would see BAKEWELL shareholders benefit at their expense when your legal claim to any of Ian's assets is not superior to theirs? If you take control of assets to which you have no valid legal claim, you're the ones who may find yourselves guilty of theft or conversion.
Just trying to avoid this:
Where is this Ian Bakewell cunt? Why hasn't someone broke both of his legs yet? Surely there's a member within a few miles radius of him.
As you see we need to try to get this resolved legally quickly. We do not need your faux legal opinion trying to discourage people from going after him legally.
Further this discussion is of immense value because "other people have better ideas"; MikeMark for example had the excellent idea of asking Ian to do the right thing. Maybe he will. We can definitely try that. The important thing is we need to get together and do the right thing.
Yes I realize there are ISSUES with going after Ian legally but they may not be insurmountable
if we act quickly and as a community. Do yourself and the BAKEWELL shareholders a treat and stay out of our way. If it doesn't work legally, then we will learn why not, and we will learn how to structure investments and so forth in the future so we do not encounter the same legal impasse a second time.