Chapter 1 Separate Legal Personality 1
Salomon v.Salomon&Co Ltd 1
Lee v Lee's Air Farming Ltd 15
Macaura v.Northern Assurance Co.Ltd 24
Chapter 2 Lifting the Corporate Veil 30
Jones v.Lipman 30
Littlewoods Mail Order Stores Ltd.v.Inland Revenue Commissioners 34
Chapter 3 Articles of Association 42
Introductions Ltd.v.National Provincial Bank Ltd 42
Rolled Steel Products(Holdings)Ltd.v.British Steel Corporation 52
Chapter 4 Share Capital 105
Ooregum Gold Mining Company of India,Limited v.Roper 105
Re Wragg,Limited 122
Chapter 5 Capital Maintenance and Dividends 144
Precision Dippings Ltd.v.Precision Dippings Marketing Ltd 144
Brady v.Brady 151
Wallersteiner v.Moir 173
Chapter 6 Shareholders'Meeting 187
Cane v.Jones 187
Re Sticky Fingers Restaurant Ltd 199
Chapter 7 Board of Directors 205
Breckland Group Holdings Ltd.v.London&Suffolk Properties Ltd 205
Freeman&Lockyer v.Buckhurst Park Properties(Mangal)Ltd 210
Northern Counties Securities Ltd.v.Jackson&Steeple Ltd 231
Chapter 8 Majority Rule and Protection of Minorities 241
Foss v.Harbottle 241
Edwards v.Halliwell 253
Ebrahimi v.Westbourne Galleries Ltd 259
Chapter 9 Fiduciary Duty 283
Hogg v.Cramphorn Ltd 283
Howard Smith Ltd.v.Ampol Petroleum Ltd 296
Framlington Group plc&Anor v.Anderson&Ors 308
Industrial Development Consultants Ltd.v.Cooley 322
Cook v.Deeks 328
Regal(Hastings)Ltd.v.Gulliver and Others 335
In Re Smith and Fawcett,Limited 352
Chapter 10 Fraudulent Trading and Wrongful Trading 356
Regina v.Grantham 356
In Re Gerald Cooper Chemicals Ltd.(In Liquidation) 365
Re Produce Marketing Consortium Ltd 371
Re DKG Contractors Ltd 379
Re Purpoint Ltd 389
Table of Cases 399
Acknowledgements 401