Piercing the Corporate Veil in UK Law

  • Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Junio 2013
    ... ... Jack Murphy, a director of PRL and the corporate secretary of the three respondent companies, who ... him to reach the companies' assets by piercing the corporate veil. This was because the ... ...
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
    • Supreme Court
    • 06 Febrero 2013
    ... ... rate swap, on the basis that RAP's corporate veil could in the circumstances be pierced and ... As to piercing the corporate veil, both courts have held that, ... ...
  • Adams v Cape Industries Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Julio 1989
    ... ... 63 19. As to control over corporate activities: the corporate, as opposed to ... " in the section dealing with the "corporate veil argument". We shall consider contention (3) and ... , constitute what is sometimes called ';piercing the corporate veil'; it recognises the legal and ... ...
  • Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 Abril 2015
    ... ... action [2011] JBL 213 , Ferran, Corporate Attribution and Directing Mind and Will (2011) ... the criminal context does this involve piercing the corporate veil. It is simply a recognition of ... ...
  • Woolfson v Strathclyde Regional Council
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Febrero 1978
    ... ... respect, it was proper to pierce the corporate veil and treat the group as a single economic ... ...
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corporation
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Junio 2012
    ... ... second and third defendants and other corporate entities involved, the claimants are in a ... that the court should pierce the corporate veil of RAP so as to show that Marcap BVI, Marcap ... are liable to VTB in contract, by piercing the veil of incorporation of RAP. The first and ... ...
  • Ultraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 Julio 2005
    ... ... The case against the corporate defendants 57 ... rare cases in which, as a result of piercing the corporate veil, a profit made by a company is ... ...
  • Jennings v Crown Prosecution Service
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Mayo 2008
    ... ... Piercing the corporate veil ... 15 ... ...
  • Linsen Transport International Ltd v Humpuss Sea Transport PTE Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 14 Septiembre 2011
    ... ... basis that there had been abuse of the corporate structure of the Humpuss group of companies by ... to entitle the court to pierce the corporate veil and to hold that the third to thirteenth ... could show a good arguable case for piercing the corporate veil and making the third to ... ...
  • Rossendale Borough Council v Hurstwood Properties (A) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 Marzo 2019
    ... ... , is it arguable that the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil is applicable to the SPVs? ... ...
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