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Applying
the Law to the facts
Two Format?
1.
1. Identification Identification
2.
2. Issues (s) & Holding (s) Facts
3.
Procedural History
3. Facts 4
Issues (s) & Holding
4 Procedural History (s) (Court’s answer
5 Reasoning presented in the issue)
5
Reasoning (Dictum –
6 Evaluation
Courts reasoning)
7 Synthesis 6
Evaluation
Advantage - Force to frame the 7
legal issue before facts – Synthesis*
appreciation of facts for their legal
significance Convenient
H5W’s? Position statement
(Expresses a
Action plan conclusion)
Who
How What
Get Familiar
with the Facts
& Issues
- In the Case
When
Where
Why Argument
Within the same body there exists more than one distinct
personality
Robert Louis Stevenson
CORPORATE VEIL DOCTRINE - A FERTILE
GROUND FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH?
Exception to –
General Rule of Limited Liability?
English Courts Are Loathe (dislike) to
Apply the Doctrine?
Conservative Approach - only under exceptional
circumstances is veil piercing permitted
(English Law)
Black
A cloak Sheep
What
A mere ? Mere
nominee When device
?
Dr. Dayananda Murthy C P
Doctrine has always been fact specific &
open-ended
Evade an
Defraud Circumvent a
existing
Creditors Statute / Law
obligation
Achieve / Protect
Perpetuate knavery /
Monopoly Crime