Discussion Activity 6.2: Shadow Directors

I think that a corporation can be a shadow director of another corporation because of separate legal personhood of corporations and because it is possible that a corporation could claim they are not directors of another corporation, but still act like directing minds of another corporation. But, I think that to show that a corporation is […]

Discussion Activity 5.1: Reconciling R v. Fitzpatrick’s Fuel and The Rhône

I think that The “Rhone” and Fitzpatrick’s are reconcilable in regards to the captain not being seen as a directing mind, but the gas attendant/cashier being found to be a directing mind due to different policy considerations playing a role in the two cases. This might be too simplistic, but here’s how I rationalize it. […]

The Corporation: Reflection

The Corporation was quite an interesting documentary. To be honest, I don’t know much about businesses and company law at the moment and I feel ambiguous on whether or not I am convinced that corporations are inevitably going to behave badly or be psychopathic (perhaps due to my lack of knowledge in the area!). On […]