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Veil-Piercing Unbound, Peter B. Oh
Veil-Piercing Unbound, Peter B. Oh
Peter B. Oh
Veil-piercing is an equitable remedy. This simple insight has been lost over time. What started as a means for corporate creditors to reach into the personal assets of a shareholder has devolved into a doctrinal black hole. Courts apply an expansive list of amorphous factors, attenuated from the underlying harm, that engenders under-inclusive, unprincipled, and unpredictable results for entrepreneurs, litigants, and scholars alike. Veil-piercing is misapplied because it is misconceived. The orthodox approach is to view veil-piercing as an exception to limited liability that is justified potentially only when the latter is not, a path that invariably leads to examining …
The Decision In Akai: The Interaction Of Apparent Authority And Knowing Receipt, Michael Lp Lower
The Decision In Akai: The Interaction Of Apparent Authority And Knowing Receipt, Michael Lp Lower
Michael LP Lower
The recent decision of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal in Thanakharn Kasikorn Chamkat (Mahachon) v Akai Holdings Ltd ([2010] HKEC 1692, CFA) illustrated the interaction of parallel claims in the tort of conversion and for knowing receipt when a director wrongly claims to be entitled to give a lender security over corporate assets that are then disposed of in exercise of the lender's (non-existent) security rights.