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PIERCING THE VEIL
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Mind Map on PIERCING THE VEIL, created by reashton on 12/04/2013.
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PIERCING THE VEIL
Maritime v Avalon - treating the companies liabilities and property as that of the shareholders
Statutory
Insolvency Act 1986 s213-214 - Directors can be made personally liable for fraudulent or wrongful trading
Case Law
Four exceptions to Salomon:
Agency
Ebbw Vale - Subsidiaries are not automatically agents.
Smith Stone - Atkinson J's relevant factors
Chandler V Cape - parent had no day-to-day control. Did not pierce but able to recover through duty of care
Caparo- risk was foreseeable. fair just and reasonable to impose liability
Justice
Re Company - pierce if it is necessary
Adams v Cape - court is not free to disregard Salomon simply for justice
Conway v Ratiu - only when common sense and reality demand it
Sham/Facade
Gilford Motor - way of escaping pre-existing legal duty
Jones v Lipman - Russell J - " A mask which he holds in an attempt to avoid the eye of equity"
Trustor v Smallbone - courts can pierce if façade was used to escape liability
Single Entity
DHN Food - Denning "bound hand and foot"
Woolfson - did not pierce
Albazero - "each company in a group of companies is a separate legal entity".
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