European cross-border procedures (EU Law)—overview

When evaluating a general damages claim, the practitioner ought initially to refer to the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG)...

Date [ date ] Parties [ name of Landlord ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Landlord) [ name of Tenant ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Tenant) [ [ name of Guarantor ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Guarantor) ] [ [ name of Mortgagee ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Mortgagee) ] Definitions Within this Deed, the terms below shall be interpreted as follows: [ Annual Rent • the annual sum reserved under the Lease; ] [ Insurance Rent • the Tenant’s share of the Landlord’s costs of insuring the Property (as set out in the Lease); ] Lease • the lease of the Property dated [ date ], entered into between (1) [ the Landlord OR [ name ...

I, [ name ], of [ address ], solemnly and sincerely state that: [ Matters to be verified, set out in numbered paragraphs ] I make this solemn statement in good conscience, believing it to be true, and pursuant to the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835. DECLARED at [ details ] this [ day ] day of [ month and year ] Before me ................................................................................ [ signature of the person before whom the declaration is made ] A [ commissioner for oaths OR [ solicitor OR [ insert other qualification ] ] authorised to administer oaths ]...

This Practice Note explores the doctrine of separate legal personality for a registered company, and surveys the relevant case law addressing the narrow situations in which the corporate veil might be pierced. It also separates true piercing or lifting of the veil from the more routine instances in which the veil is sidestepped by reliance on another legal or equitable entitlement. The analysis underscores the limited nature of this intervention and the authorities that define it. Corporate legal personality—the Salomon principle A duly incorporated company is a person distinct from its members, holding its own rights and bearing its own liabilities as an independent legal subject. This rule, often called the corporate veil or the Salomon principle, was most famously articulated by Lord MacNaghten in Salomon v Salomon: the company, at law, is wholly separate from the subscribers to the memorandum; even if, after incorporation, the undertaking remains exactly as before, with the same individuals managing it and the same people receiving the profits, the company is not the subscribers’ agent or their trustee. This encapsulates the autonomy of the company and the division between entity and members. Nor are the subscribers, as members, liable in any way except to...