Corporate Veil in UK Law
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Piercing the Corporate Veil? A critical analysis on Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd and Others
Ever since the early development of company law, the notion of corporate veil has been one of the most fundamental legal principles. From Aron Saloman v A Saloman - Co Limited [1897] AC 22, it has ...
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The doctrine of piercing the corporate veil: Its legal and judicial recognition in Ethiopia
Upon acquisition of legal personality a company enjoys certain attributes such as limited liability. While the separate legal personality of a company enables it to enjoy rights and assume obligati...
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Limited liability companies in Jordan: another story for piercing the corporate veil
Purpose: In different recent judgments, the Jordanian Court of Cassation, among many other Jordanian Courts, has found that a limited liability company's shareholder may be held liable in addition ...
- Piercing the Corporate Veil: Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts
- Piercing the Corporate Veil: Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
- Piercing the Corporate Veil in the Statutory Context: Campbell v Peter Gordon Joiners Ltd.
- From Peeping Behind the Corporate Veil, to Ignoring it Completely
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Maine (and Weber) Against the Grain: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of the Corporate Person
This essay forges ties between postcolonial methodologies and the economic sociology of law, emphasizing the history, legal production, and governmental habitus of that modern abstraction called ‘t...... ... of vernacular capitalism, and emergent forms of economic citizenship today, seen through Indian case law on the corporate person and corporate veil-piercing. Let me begin with a note of thanks to the editors for posing the challenging and compelling task of articulating (if not comprehensively, ... ...
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Linking Corporate Power to Corporate Structures
Corporations are contested legal entities. Many see them merely as vehicles for financial and business elites to acquire and maintain unfettered power. In this paper, I look at the relationship bet...... ... Courts’ unwillingness to pierce the corporate veil and to extend the liability of parent company/principal to the acts of a subsidiary/agent contributes to enabling the creation and exploitation of ... ...
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Fraud and money laundering: the evolving criminalization of corporate non‐compliance
Purpose: The Corporate Veil is seen not only as a means of limiting individual civil legal liability but also criminal liability. This paper seeks to highlight that this philosophy is fast approach...... ... MastersCPS Fraud Prosecution Service of England and Wales, York, UKAbstractPurpose – The Corporate Veil is seen not only as a means of limiting individual civil legal liabilitybut also criminal liability. This paper seeks to highlight that this ... ...
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