The Enforcement of Environmental Damages Judgement as a Basis for Piercing the Corporate Veil within a Corporate Group

• Authors: Tomasz Tomczak

Title variants

PL

Dochodzenie odszkodowań zasądzonych za szkody środowiskowe jako podstawa tzw. odpowiedzialności przebijającej w ramach grupy kapitałowej

Abstracts

EN

The present article, on the basis of the high-profile Chevron case, rethinks the principle of corporate veil within a corporate group. It tries to convince the reader that a plaintiff holding an environmental damages judgement should be able to enforce it against any company in the corporate group of defendant regardless of the fact that such company was not a defendant in the underlying action (the new test). To attain this goal, firstly, the basic notions as an “environmental damages judgement,” a “corporate group,” and “the corporate veil” are explained. The article then elaborates on the importance of the corporate veil principle. Furthermore, it describes what would currently constitute a potential ground for piercing of the corporate veil in Canada. Later on, it provides a three-level justification for why the veil, in the described circumstances, should be pierced. Finally, the new test regarding piercing the corporate veil is proposed.

Keywords

EN

enforcement of judgements; corporate veil; corporate group; environmental damages; chevron case

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski
• Journal: Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 197-234

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Tomasz Tomczak

• Uniwersytet Opolski

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/PPPM.2021.28.07

Biblioteka Nauki

20761251