Corporate Personality in UK Law
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Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
... ... an affidavit sworn by Mr Jack Murphy, a director of PRL and the corporate secretary of the three respondent companies, who failed to attend for ... was because the authorities showed that the separate legal personality of the company could not be disregarded unless it was being abused for a ... ...
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Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
... ... 15 I must start by considering the nature of the personality which by a fiction the law attributes to a corporation. A living person ... be "another person" and that where a defendant is a company or corporate body then any individual could be "another person" provided that he is not ... ...
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Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
... ... a claim that would confer direct or indirect benefits on the corporate vehicle, which was used to commit the fraud and was not the victim of it, ... It has corporate personality but can act only by agents and, as Lord Haldane LC memorably said in ... ...
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VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corporation
... ... Mr Malofeev and the second and third defendants and other corporate entities involved, the claimants are in a position to bring home a ... company, genuinely incorporated, with a genuine separate legal personality of its own: see in this context, the observations in the judgment of this ... ...
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HM Revenue and Customs v Holland; Re Paycheck Services 3 Ltd
... ... The corporate structure ... 5 From about June 1997 to February ... [1897] AC 22 , Mr Knox submitted that the separate legal personality of Paycheck Directors from that of its directors had to be respected. I do ... ...
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Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
... ... The Council shall have legal personality. It shall in particular have the capacity to contract, to acquire and ... 5 that: "the Council shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate." ... 8 The I.T.C. entered into contracts with each of the appellants ... ...
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VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
... ... Agreement and interest rate swap, on the basis that RAP's corporate veil could in the circumstances be pierced and the respondents held liable ... 'for instance, to prevent the misuse of the privileges of legal personality, as in certain cases of fraud or malfeasance, to protect third persons ... ...
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Woolfson v Strathclyde Regional Council
... ... its subsidiaries in every respect, it was proper to pierce the corporate veil and treat the group as a single economic entity for the purpose of ... ...
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Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Company SAL and Others (No.4)
... ... within the jurisdiction; the situations of an individual and corporate debtor ought to be given parallel effect. Mr Layton counters by ... A corporate judgment debtor has a separate legal personality, and is not to be equated with its officers. They may have information ... ...
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Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... of Appeal the question whether a local authority which is a body corporate can sue for libel under the law of England and Wales. That puts the matter ... human person no particular problem arises, but sometimes the personality is a legal fiction, as in the case of a corporation. Does such a ... ...
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