Legal Personality in UK Law
- Unincorporated Associations - Soon To Have Legal Personality?
- The Concept Of Legal Personality From Companies To Natural Entities?
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Staggered Lifting of the Corporate Veil: A Case for Group Insolvency Norms
The recognition of a company’s separate juristic personality by the UK’s House of Lords in its landmark ruling in Salomon v. Salomon A Company Ltd.,[1] remains the basis for modern corporate law.[2...... The recognition of a companys separate juristic personality by the UKs House of Lords in its landmark ruling in Salomon v. Salomon A ... law.[2] The ruling in effect drew a corporate veil around the legal personality of the company thereby establishing the separate legal ... ...
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Piercing the Corporate Veil – the Supreme Court Rules Again
In Prest v. Petrodel Resources Ltd the Supreme Court confirmed that the separate legal personality of a company cannot be disregarded unless the company is being abused for a purpose that is in som...... ... Resources Ltd1 the Supreme Court confirmed that the separate legal personality of a company cannot be disregarded unless the company is being ... ...
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News from Abroad -- UK Progress on Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC)
The UK has become the ninth state to deposit the document required to apply the Protocol on Provisional Application (PPA), which is an essential step towards formation of the UPC. Four more deposi...... ... for the PPA to come into force, which will allow the UPC to gain legal personality and start the process of selecting Judges and formally to ... ...
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TRANSACTIONAL: Corporate/London: Looking Around the Corporate Veil by Hywel Jones
International energy agreements frequently incorporate UK law in choice-of-law clauses. Legal principles developed by British courts thus have the potential to affect wide-ranging operations of ene...... ... Legal principles developed by British courts thus have the potential to affect ... benefit from the legal principle of “separate corporate personality” meaning that the acts and liabilities of a company are its own and not ... ...
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United Kingdom Budget - Proposals Affecting Asset Management Industry
... ... possibility of allowing UK limited partnerships ("LPs") to elect for legal personality. This has long been a concern to private equity and venture ... ...
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Piercing The Corporate Veil: Supreme Court Clarifies The English Law Position
... ... that English law permits a claimant to ignore the separate legal identity of a company, and "pierce the corporate veil" in certain ... High Court recognised that the companies had a separate legal personality from Mr Prest, as they were not being used for an improper purpose, and ... ...
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English Limited Partnership Registration
... ... English and Scottish LPs differ in that a Scottish LP has a separate legal personality whereas an English one does not ... Despite the age of the ... ...
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Contracting with a foreign sovereign: capacity and authority
Ukraine v The Law Debenture Trust Corporation PLC [2018] EWCA Civ 2026 - The second round of the legal battle between Russia and Ukraine over repayment of Eurobonds issued by Ukraine has ended w...... ... The second round of the legal battle between Russia and Ukraine over repayment of Eurobonds issued by ... The Court of Appeal found that a sovereign state derives legal personality, as a matter of English common law, from its recognition as a state by the ... ...
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