In O'Neill v Phillips (1999) the respondent, P, originally held all of the issued share capital in the company and was its sole director. The petitioner, O, was employed by the company in 1983 as a manual worker.
24-46 Floating Dock Company of St Thomas Ltd, Re [1895] 1 Ch 691... 16-48, 22-79 Floor Fourteen Ltd, Re, ... 23-10 Folgate London Market Ltd v Chaucer Insurance plc [2011] BCC 675, aff'g[2010] 2 BCLC 440 . . . 24-60 Folkes Group plc v ...
The practical effects of the board's autonomy were explained by Greer LJ in John Shaw & Sons (Salford) Ltd v Shaw (1935): If powers of management are vested in the directors, they and they alone can exercise these powers.
The proportion of capital to which each member is entitled, is his share. Shares are always transferable, although the right to transfer them is often more or less restricted.” Chief Justice Marshall of U.S.A. has defined a company in ...
In Adams the court adopted a legalistic approach: ... we do not accept as a matter of law that the court is entitled to lift the corporate veil as against a defendant company which is a member of a corporate group merely because the ...
Adams v Cape Industries plc [1990] Ch 433 (CA) Facts: Cape Industries plc was based in England. A subsidiary of Cape was based in South Africa where it mined asbestos. The asbestos was sold by other subsidiaries, one of which was based ...
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be relevant—there must be a connection between the impropriety and the use of the corporate form: TrustorAB v Smallbone (No.2) [2001] 1 WLR 1177. This was empha- sized in Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd. Clearly the motivation of the ...
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These are people are called passive promoters. Tracy v. Mandalay Pty Ltd (1953) 88 CLR 215 Facts: 1 See Emma Silver Mining Co Ltd v Lewis & Son (1879) 4 CPD 396. 2 Twycross v Grant (1877) 46 LJCP 636, per Cockburn CJ.
This book advances a real entity theory of company law, in which the company is a legal entity which acts autonomously in law, and company law establishes procedures facilitating autonomous organisational decision-making.
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Van der Meer, S. W. Corporation Law of the Netherlands Antilles (Tjeenk Willink, Zwolle, 1973). ... Gower, L. C. B., Modern Company Law (3rd edition, Stevens)—a comprehensive treatment, less detailed but more analytical and theoretical ...
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Nolan, 'The Proper Purpose Doctrine and Company Directors' in Rider (ed) The Realm of Company Law (London, Kluwer Law International, 1998). Penner, The Law of Trusts, 12th edn (Oxford, OUP, 2022; 10th edn, 2016; 8th edn, 2012), ch 14.