Lifting the Corporate Veil in UK Law
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Growth companies and procedural safeguards in European patent litigation
The unitary patent system with the establishment of the Unified Patent Court will lead to unitary patent protection covering most European Union countries. Moreover, it will lead to litigation with...... ... C. Lifting the corporate veil prevents circumvention Under ... ...
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The Securities and Investments Board v Scandex Capital Management A/S & Jeremy Bartholomew‐White
The first Defendant, Scandex Capital Management A/S, (Scandex) was a Danish company, now in liquidation, of which the second Defendant, Mr Bartholomew‐White was managing director and in which he he...... ... should be treated as his business by 'lifting the corpo-rate veil' or because he was a person ... Lifting the corporate veil Could the SIB set aside Scandex' corporate ... ...
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European Directives — the Emerging Dilemmas
... ... LJ in Lonrho v ShellI4 that the corporate" veil would only be lifted where the \xE2" ... to apply principles concerned with lifting the corporate veil within a group of ... ...
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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...... ... This process is known as piercing or lifting the corporate veil ... Based on legislative analysis, interview, and case analysis, this article tries to explore some possible grounds by which ... ...
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Limited Liability: Large Company Theory and Small Firms
Current enthusiasm for the ‘enterprise culture’ results in strong support for easy access to limited liability forms of business organisation. This has manifested itself in the creation of new limi...... ... Hicks, ‘Corporate Form: Questioning the Unsung Hero’ [1997] JBL ... that courts are more likely to pierce the veil of limited liability where there are fewer than ... , are a distortion and an argument for lifting the veil in favour of involuntary creditors. May ... ...
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THE BHOPAL CASE: CONTROLLING ULTRAHAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY FOREIGN INVESTORS
... ... its global network of corporate planning, direction and control.” ... In company law, the “corporate veil” between parent and subsidiary will be ... an extension of the doctrine of “lifting the corporate veil” to a case of ... ...
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Attribution in Company Law
In Bilta (UK) Ltd (in liquidation) v Nazir (No 2), the Court of Appeal held that the ex turpi causa defence was inapplicable by refusing to attribute the fraud of the directors and the sole shareho...... ... distinct circumstances under which corporate attribution should or should not take place ... emphatically that the court can pierce the veil ‘only for the purpose [ ... ] of depriving ... turpi causa , would in effect amount to lifting the corporate veil and treating the company as if ... ...
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Commonwealth Companies and the Constitution
... ... Specifically, we examine whether corporate law rules and principles are capable of ... companies and whether the corporate veil can be lifted to allow the actions of the ... This argument may involve "lifting the veil of incorporation", an issue which is ... ...
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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...... ... , 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 ... -century United States law that had also used corporate veil-lifting, in this case actually to affirm that the corporation had some form of ... ...
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Multinationals and the Export of Hazard
... ... Osgocde Hall Rev 1; Baughen, ‘Corporate Accountability and the Law of Tort: The ... parent company has sought to ‘lift the veil’ as between itself and its subsidiaries. In ... topic, see Gallagher and Ziegler, ‘Lifting the Corporate Veil in the Pursuit of ... ...
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