If a shareholder, etc. who has filed an action to enforce liability wins the suit (including cases of partially winning the suit), and the shareholder has paid the necessary costs (excluding court costs) or is to pay a fee to an attorney, a legal professional corporation, or an attorney and registered foreign joint corporation with respect to the suit relating to the action to enforce liability, the shareholder may demand the relevant stock company, etc. to pay an amount that is found to be reasonable, not exceeding the amount of that costs or the amount of that fee.
Even if a shareholder, etc. who has filed an action to enforce liability loses the case, the shareholder, etc. is not obligated to compensate the relevant stock company, etc. for the damages arising as a result thereof, except when the shareholder, etc. was in bad faith.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to any shareholder, etc. who intervened in the suit referred to in Article 849, paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.
前二項の規定は、第八百四十九条第一項の規定により同項の訴訟に参加した株主等について準用する。