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Manuchar Steel Hong Kong Ltd v. Star Pacific Line Pte Ltd

Singapore High Court decision rejecting broad single-economic-entity reasoning and affirming the separate legal personality of related companies in a commercial enforcement context.

Use It For

Use this with Salomon, Prest, and Chinese horizontal veil-piercing cases to compare how courts handle affiliated-company groups.

Teaching Notes

The case helps students resist treating economic unity as enough; the legal question remains whether the corporate form is being abused in a way that justifies disregarding it.