Recovery of tax by lifting the corporate veil | Amarchand Mangaldas

Legal Briefing

The concept of an incorporated company having a separate existence and the law recognising it as a legal person separate and distinct from its members/shareholders was first recognised in the case of Saloman v Saloman & Co Ltd [1897]. Consequently, the legal framework pertaining to a company’s operations and obligations acknowledges separate legal existence as a key …

Consent and connivance: the criminal liability of directors and senior officers | WilmerHale

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In our November article, ‘Establishing the criminal liability of corporations’, we looked at how liability for criminal offences can attach to corporations, where the commission of the offence is attributable to someone who was at the material time the ‘directing mind and will’ of the company.1 This article looks at the related issue of how criminal …

European competition law selected highlights: the last six months of 2012 | Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP

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The last six months of 2012 saw a number of interesting European competition law developments. In this article we summarise those which appear to us to stand out as raising issues of substance or procedure that will affect the application of competition law in the future. In summarising these key developments, we distinguish between developments …

The OECD’s new global online consumer product recall portal presents both benefits and risks for businesses selling products abroad | Shook, Hardy & Bacon

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The Organisation for Economic 
Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched a global online consumer product recall portal that gives consumers, businesses and governments easy access to the latest information on products recalled from the markets in Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States. 
The portal may be accessed at: 
www.globalrecalls.oecd.org.


Absence of assets: no bar to worldwide freezing order jurisdiction | Macfarlanes

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In Royal Bank of Scotland plc v FAL Oil Company Ltd & ors [2012], Mrs Justice Gloster held that the English court had jurisdiction to grant a worldwide freezing injunction and worldwide disclosure orders despite the defendants not having any assets in the jurisdiction and the substantive claims being pursued in 
the UAE.

Recent developments in Chinese trade mark law | Rouse

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On 31 October 2012, Premier Wen Jiabao presided over an executive meeting of the state council, at which draft amendments to the Trade Mark Law of the People’s Republic of China were deliberated and adopted.