Corporate Identity

Corporate Identity

1. The Big Three

   • Salomon v A. Salomon & Co
     • Contract with himself
   • Lee v Lee's Air Farming
     • Sued company for own death
     • Could not employ himself
   • McAura v Nothern Assurance
     • Firewood

2. Piercing the Veil

   • Gilford Motor v Horne
     • getting round restrictive convenant not allowed
   • Daimler v Continental Tyre
     • Warzone
   • DHN Food
     • Lord Denning
       • Regard group of companie as one
     • Compensation
   • Woolfson v Strathclyde
     • 'facade concealing the true facts'
     • Tried to claim more compensation by connectin companies
   • Suing the Holding Company
     • Adams v Cape
       • Could not
     • Re Southard & Co
       • Not responsible
     • Chandler v Cape
       • Successful
       • NOT piercing the veil
   • Yukong v Rendsberg
     • Shipping Captain not party to contract
       • Shadow director
     • Would not peirce the veil
   • Kensington v Congo
     • Avioding payment
   • Trustor AB v Smallbone
     • Civil grounds
     • Accountant hiding money
   • Petrodel v Prest
     • NOT pierced
     • Significant rulings
   • Naxos v Project Management
     • Copyright
   • Statute
     • Company Directors Disqualification Act
     • Insolvency Act
       • s212
         • Misfeasance
           • DKG Contractors
       • s213
         • Fraudulent Trading
       • s 214
         • Wrongful Trading
           • Produce Marketing
       • s 216
         • Phoenix trading
           • Buttercup Margarine

3. Criminal Liability

   • Tesco v Natrass
     • company not liable
     • marketed propotion did not exit
   • Ready Mixed Concrete
     • Smoking unauthorised
       • Company still liable
         • Steps to prevent
   • Death
     • R v OLL
       • Canoeing School
       • Admitted compnay liabilty
     • Transco v HMA
       • Gas leak
       • no mens rea
     • Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act
       • Company owes duty of care
         • s2
       • sanctions
         • remedial order
           • s8
         • Publicity Order
           • s10
       • R v Eaton & Cotswold
         • Fined for death
           • Went bust
         • Pit death