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Adams v. Cape Industries plc

English Court of Appeal authority rejecting veil piercing merely because a corporate group is organized to limit liability, absent agency, facade, statute, or other recognized ground.

Brief English Introduction

The claimants sought to enforce U.S. asbestos judgments against the English parent company of a group. The Court of Appeal declined to treat the parent and subsidiaries as one merely because the group structure limited liability.

Use It For

Use this after Salomon and before Prest to show the restrictive English approach to group-company veil piercing.

Teaching Notes

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