Not often Company law makes it onto prime time TV, but this week's episode of Mr Selfridge was a great example of why if you have a Company with more than one shareholder you should always check out your articles of association. If he had put into his a restriction on transfer of the family shares, they would have had to have been offered to him first on sale and nasty Lord Loxley wouldn't now be on the Board of Directors -though that would have had much less dramatic effect of course !