Blog Activity 5.3 – Section 33

Restricted businesses and powers 33. (1) A company must not (a) carry on any business or exercise any power that it is restricted by its memorandum or articles from carrying on or exercising, or (b) exercise any of its powers in a manner inconsistent with those restrictions in its memorandum or articles. (2) No act of a company, including […]

Problems with Corporate Personhood?

There are problems with corporate personhood only to the extent to which we believe in the existence of separate corporate personhood. That is, do we think a corporate is an entity with its own autonomous aspects (capacities, rights, etc. – the details are irrelevant to this point), or do we think a corporation is a vessel […]

The Myth of Corporate Personhood

A corporation is not a person: although I obviously do not have knowledge of the full range of jurisprudence on this issue, there seems to be little ground to support the notion that a corporation is a person. There is legislation in place, section 15(1) of the CBCA and section 30 of the BCBCA, that gives corporations […]