Corporate Identity

The Big Three
1. Salomon v A. Salomon & Co
  1. Contract with himself
2. Lee v Lee's Air Farming
  1. Sued company for own death
  2. Could not employ himself
3. McAura v Nothern Assurance
  1. Firewood
Piercing the Veil
1. Gilford Motor v Horne
  1. getting round restrictive convenant not allowed
2. Daimler v Continental Tyre
  1. Warzone
3. DHN Food
  1. Lord Denning
    1. Regard group of companie as one
  2. Compensation
4. Woolfson v Strathclyde
  1. 'facade concealing the true facts'
  2. Tried to claim more compensation by connectin companies
5. Suing the Holding Company
  1. Adams v Cape
    1. Could not
  2. Re Southard & Co
    1. Not responsible
  3. Chandler v Cape
    1. Successful
    2. NOT piercing the veil
6. Yukong v Rendsberg
  1. Shipping Captain not party to contract
    1. Shadow director
  2. Would not peirce the veil
7. Kensington v Congo
  1. Avioding payment
8. Trustor AB v Smallbone
  1. Civil grounds
  2. Accountant hiding money
9. Petrodel v Prest
  1. NOT pierced
  2. Significant rulings
10. Naxos v Project Management
  1. Copyright
11. Statute
  1. Company Directors Disqualification Act
  2. Insolvency Act
    1. s212
      1. Misfeasance
        DKG Contractors
    2. s213
      1. Fraudulent Trading
    3. s 214
      1. Wrongful Trading
        Produce Marketing
    4. s 216
      1. Phoenix trading
        Buttercup Margarine
Criminal Liability
1. Tesco v Natrass
  1. company not liable
  2. marketed propotion did not exit
2. Ready Mixed Concrete
  1. Smoking unauthorised
    1. Company still liable
      1. Steps to prevent
3. Death
  1. R v OLL
    1. Canoeing School
    2. Admitted compnay liabilty
  2. Transco v HMA
    1. Gas leak
    2. no mens rea
  3. Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act
    1. Company owes duty of care
      1. s2
    2. sanctions
      1. remedial order
        s8
      2. Publicity Order
        s10
    3. R v Eaton & Cotswold
      1. Fined for death
        Went bust
      2. Pit death

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