Gilford Motor Company Ltd v Horne

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1933
Date1933
Year1933
CourtCourt of Appeal
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Assumption of Direct Responsibility for a Subsidiary's Liabilities – Is the Corporate Limited Liability Veil in Tatters?
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • August 9, 2012
    ...was ‘not so much a decision to pierce the corporate veil as a decision to ignore privity of contract ... Neither in Gilford v Horne [1933] Ch 935 nor in Jones v Lipman [1962] 1 WLR 832 were damages awarded against the puppet for breach of the puppeteer's contract. Rather, equitable relief w......
  • Piercing The Corporate Veil — Recent Developments
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • April 4, 2012
    ...a 'façade concealing the true facts'.4 Two of the earliest and best known examples where such a finding was made are Gilford v Horne [1933] Ch 935 ("Horne") and Jones v Lipman [1962] 1 WLR In Horne, the Court of Appeal granted an injunction against both Mr Horne and J.M. Horne and Co Ltd, a......
17 books & journal articles
  • SOME CURRENT ISSUES IN SINGAPORE CORPORATE LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • December 1, 2019
    ...27 [2000] All ER (D) 1067. 28 Snook v London and West Riding Investments Ltd [1967] 2 QB 786 at 802. 29 Gilford Motor Co Ltd v Horne [1933] Ch 935. 30 Though as suggested they mean the same thing. 31 See also Yeo Hwee Ying & Ruth Yeo, “Revisiting the Alter Ego Exception in Corporate Veil Pi......
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Law of Insolvent Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships Contents
    • August 29, 2015
    ...Gerald Cooper Chemicals Ltd, Re [1978] Ch 262 549 GHE Realisations Ltd, Re [2005] EWHC 2400 (Ch) 164, 182 Gilford Motor Co Ltd v Horne [1933] Ch 935 477 Gill v Sandhu [2005] EWCA Civ 1297, [2006] Ch 456 199 Glasdir Copper Mines Ltd, English Electro-Metallurgical Co Ltd v Glasdir Copper Mine......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Large-Scale Claims Interjurisdictional Dimensions
    • June 15, 2005
    ...47 Gilford Motor Co., Ltd. v. Horne, [1933] Ch. 935, [1933] All E.R. Rep. 109 (C.A.) ................................................................................................................ 282 Goldthorpe v. Logan, [1943] 2 D.L.R. 519, [1943] O.W.N. 215 (C.A.) .................... 8......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Partnerships and Corporations. Fourth Edition
    • August 5, 2018
    ...Giffin v Soontiens, 2011 NSSC 403 .................................................................... 489 Gilford Motor Co Ltd v Horne, [1933] Ch 935, [1933] All ER Rep 109, 102 LJ Ch 212, 149 LT 241 (CA) .................................................................. 145 Glass v 618717......
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