Veil Lifting QUESTION The general reasoning of the Court in this area of Veil Lifting the Corporate veil has been confusing and‚ at times‚ contradictory: Discuss The question requires an analysis of whether the parent company (A); will be liable for the claims against its subsidiary‚ (b): in other words‚ whether the corporate veil can be lifted in this group structure. Both the parent company and its subsidiary are incorporate which have been legally formed. A company once incorporated‚ is a separate
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The main issue in the question� entails a discussion relates to corporate entity or personality. As noted a key feature of the company is that is a legal person with a separate existence from the company ’s members� or its directors. It is an artificial person in the eye of law that exist independently and separate from any other entity associated with the company. As a consequences a company can enter into contracts with its own shareholders� and own property in its own right. Beside that‚ a company
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Enterprise JavaBeans A Component Development Model Dan Ochieng ’ Odhiambo I27/1157/2007 Component Based Software Development‚ SSE 402 Mr. Peter Kimemiah March 1‚ 2011 Enterprise JavaBeans: Summary Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a managed‚ server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications. The enterprise application developer may build his/her application as a set of interconnected enterprise beans and deploy such an application in an EJB-compliant
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John Walter O. Boisvert TM 102 (12:20 – 2:00) FORMS OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 1. Sole Proprietorship - is the simplest business form under which one can operate a business. The sole proprietorship is not a legal entity. It simply refers to a person who owns the business and is personally responsible for its debts. A sole proprietorship can operate under the name of its owner or it can do business under a fictitious name. ADVANTAGES: * Capital - Sole proprietor contributes
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(1)). Private company was an independent legal person and legal entity‚ therefore‚ if the company winding-up‚ the shareholders did not have to bear the liability owing to limited liability. In Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd (1896)‚ it
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satisfy the debts‚ and if this is insufficient you may be declared bankrupt. An undercharged bankrupt is forbidden to start another business or to become a director of a Private/Public limited company. 2. Legal Entity/Status or Recognition A private limited company is a legal entity‚ a juristic person established under the Act. It has its existence separate from its directors and members. Private limited company status enables you to be taken more seriously than a
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is meant by separate legal entity & the corporate veil? 2. When will the corporate veil be lifted (ie. shareholders held to BE the corporation)? a. Fraud b. Agency c. Groups d. Tort How does a comp become separate legal entity? • Comp become SLE on date of certificate of registration and approval with ASIC: s119 CA • Effect: become SLE or “legal person” with legal capacity/powers of corporation: s124 Corporate Veil & Separate Legal Entity Once comp reg under
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Acme Fireworks is a fireworks retailer that sells fireworks and does displays of fireworks. Two years ago the company started in the owner’s garage and has 15 employees. The owner has informed me that we have big orders to fill and promised the consumers we could deliver. The owner is needing to hire more skilled labor for the orders to be fulfilled. If the orders don’t fall through‚ the owner is now not only in fulfilling the orders but not being able to pay the added skilled labor if the orders
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The main issue relates to corporate entity or personality‚ a company being a legal entity independent of its members‚ can enter into contracts and own property in its own right‚ can sue and be sued and also taxed in its own name. The principle of corporate entity was established in the case of Salomon v A. Salomon ‚ now referred to as the ‘Salomon’ principle. The facts of this case were that the owner of a business sold it to a company he had formed‚ in return for fully paid-up shares to himself
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Introduction In 1897 the case of Salomon v A. Salomon & Co. Ltd was concluded‚ a highly regarded case within company law due to the Separate Entity Principle outlined‚ the principal which became widely known as the Salomon Principle. This piece will summarise the case in order to identify the importance it has in company law‚ along with identifying under what circumstance the Salomon Principle might be ignored by the courts. The final section will conclude with a subjective view of the Salomon Principle
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