JUDGES SCIENTIFIC PLC — Share Issue/Capital Change 2015

Oct 16, 2015

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RNS Number : 5799C

Judges Scientific PLC

16 October 2015

Judges Scientific plc

(the "Company")

Issue of equity and Director/PDMR shareholding

Further to the announcement of 24 July 2015 disclosing an irrevocable instruction given by David Barnbrook, a Director of the Company, to sell 5,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company primarily to fund the exercise cost and tax liability associated with the exercise of 5,000 options over new Ordinary Shares in the Company prior to their expiration date of 19 October 2015. The Company announces that it has, today, issued 5,000 new ordinary shares of 5p each ("New Shares") under its existing blocklisting to satisfy the exercise of options by David Barnbrook, a director of Judges, under the Company's Unapproved Share Option Scheme.  David Barnbrook has subsequently sold the New Shares.

Director	Existing shareholding	Number of options exercised	Exercise price (£)	Shares sold	Sale price (£)	Resultant shareholding	Resultant shareholding (%)
David Barnbrook	21,953	5,000	1.015	5,000	14.00	21,953	0.36

In addition, David holds remaining options over 23,325 ordinary shares under the Company's Share Option Plans.

The Group's share capital and total voting rights now comprises of 6,097,049 ordinary shares of 1p each. The Group does not hold any shares in treasury. Consequently, 6,097,049 is the figure which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Group under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information please contact:

For further information please contact:

Judges Scientific Plc

David Cicurel, CEO

Brad Ormsby, Group FD

Tel: 020 3829 6970

Shore Capital (Nominated Adviser & Broker)

Pascal Keane

Edward Mansfield

Tel: 020 7408 4090

Cardew Group (Financial Public Relations)

Nadja Vetter 

Tel: 020 7930 0777 or 07941 340 836

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