p. 342. Corporate Personality and Limited Liability
- Sarah WorthingtonSarah WorthingtonDowning Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
Abstract
This chapter discusses: the company as a separate legal person; the limited liability of members; the meaning and the processes of ‘piercing the corporate veil’; statutory piercing of the corporate veil; limits to the idea of a company as a ‘person’; and particular illustrations of a company’s separate personality.