Key legal question
Whether Art. 697 OR entitled the shareholder to inspect the annual accounts of group subsidiaries through the parent company.
Extracted holding
No. The shareholder failed to show that inspection of the subsidiaries' annual accounts was necessary to exercise shareholder rights in the parent company, especially given the available consolidated financial statements.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that necessity under Art. 697 OR must be shown from the perspective of a reasonable shareholder. In a group structure, the consolidated accounts normally provide the relevant overview; a general desire for additional detail about each subsidiary is insufficient.