Lee v Lee's Air Farming Ltd
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Lee v Lee's Air Farming Ltd [1960] UKPC 33 is a company law case from New Zealand, also important for UK company law and Indian Companies Act 2013, concerning the corporate veil and separate legal personality. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reasserted that a company is a separate legal entity, so that a director could still be under a contract of employment with the company he solely owned.[1]
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Lee v Lee’s Air Farming Ltd | |
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Court | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council |
Full case name | Catherine Lee v Lee's Air Farming Limited |
Decided | 11 October 1960 |
Citation(s) | [1960] UKPC 33, [1961] AC 12, [1960] 3 All ER 420, [1960] 3 WLR 758, 104 Sol Jo 869 |
Transcript(s) | Privy Council ruling |
Case history | |
Appealed from | [1959] NZLR 383 |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Viscount Simonds, Lord Reid, Lord Tucker, Lord Denning, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest |
Case opinions | |
Decision by | Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest |
Keywords | |
Separate legal personality |
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