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Companies within the same group frequently have almost identical names, but that does not detract from their independent legal personalities. As a High Court case concerning an offshore helicopter crash showed, that fundamental principle constitutes a trap into which the unwary persistently fall. The helicopter’s

Minority shareholders have limited influence over the direction a company takes, but they do have rights and, as a High Court ruling showed, the law can move extremely quickly to ensure that they are not trampled upon. A corporate minority shareholder in a real estate

Judges know how to deal with directors who dishonestly line their own pockets at the expense of companies that they are duty-bound to serve. In a Court of Appeal case on point, one such miscreant was stripped not only of his underhand profit but also