Court takes realist view of corporate personality
Beckett Investment Management Group Ltd v Hall
Court of Appeal
“In construing a covenant in restraint of trade between a holding company and its employees, who provided services through subsidiary companies within a corporate group, the Court of Appeal rejected a purist approach to corporate personality in favour of one which had regard to the realities of big business, taking the group as being one concern under one supreme control.”
The Times, 11th July 2007
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