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DISCUSSION NOTES
Please note that these notes do not replace your study guide, textbook
and prescribed articles. It is merely there to assist you in your revision. It
highlights some of the important parts of the work.
Study unit 1: Legal personality and lifting of the veil
Once a company is incorporated and a certificate of incorporation is issued, it is a
separate legal entity distinct from its members. It can enter into contracts in its own name
and sue and be sued. Its members are not liable for its debts and enjoy limited liability.
Separate legal personality:
Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd:
• The estate of the company is assessed apart from the estates of individual shareholders
or members, therefore the debts of the company are the company’s debts and separate
from those of its shareholders or members. They enjoy limited liability;
• The profits of the company belong to the company and not its shareholders and only after
the company has declared a dividend may the shareholders claim that dividend;
• The assets of the company are its exclusive property and the shareholders have no
proportionate proprietary rights therein; and
• No one is qualified by virtue of his or her shareholding to act on behalf of the company.
Only those who are appointed as representatives of the company in accordance with the
articles (which has been replaced by the Memorandum of Incorporation) can bind the
company.
Our courts have also recognised that a juristic person has the right to a reputation, good
name and fame (Dhlomo v Natal Newspapers (Pty) Ltd 1989 (1) SA 945 (A)). Companies
also enjoy the right to privacy (Financial Mail (Pty) Ltd v Sage Holdings Ltd 1993 (2) SA 451)
and identity (Universiteit van Pretoria v Tommie Meyer Films 1979 (1) SA 441).
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Manong & Associates (Pty) Ltd v City Manager, City of Cape Town and another 2009
(1) SA 644 (EqC).
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The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereinafter "the Constitution")
vests a juristic person with the rights in the Bill of Rights (Chapter 2) to the extent
required by the nature of the rights and the nature of the juristic person. In this case, it
was held that a juristic person, like a natural person, could enjoy the right to equality.
Against the backdrop of the Constitution, it is acknowledged that corporations enjoy most
of the rights that natural persons enjoy. A juristic person is likewise bound by the duties
and obligations flowing from such rights. Separate legal personality ceases when a
company is dissolved and deregistered after winding-up.
The branches or divisions of a company are part of the company itself and do not
have their own separate legal existence (ABSA Bank Ltd v Blignaut and Another and
Four Similar Cases 1996 (4) SA 100 (O)).
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
• When does a company acquire legal personality?
• With reference to case law explain the meaning and effects of separate legal personality.
Piercing the corporate veil/ disregarding separate juristic personality:
• In certain cases the courts have disregarded the separate legal personality of a company
in order to recognize the substance or practical realities of a situation rather than the
form.
Innes CJ in Dadoo Ltd and others v Krugersdorp Municipal Council at 550/1 held the following:
“…This conception of the existence of a company as a separate entity distinct from its
shareholders is no merely artificial and technical thing. It is a matter of substance; … cases
may arise concerning the existence or attributes which in the nature of things cannot be
associated with a purely legal persona. And then it may be necessary to look behind the
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company and pay regard to the personality of the shareholders, who compose it.”
Before the codification of the principle of disregard of a company’s separate existence by the
Companies Act of 2008, this matter was regulated by the common law and referred to as
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“lifting” or “piercing” the corporate veil. The courts used it to place limitations on the principle
of separate legal personality in order to avoid abuse
• ‘Piercing the corporate veil’ refers to those exceptional circumstances where the
court ignores the separate legal existence of the company and treats the
shareholders as if they were the owners of the assets and had conducted the business
of the company in their personal capacities OR attributes certain rights or obligations of
the shareholders to the company.
• There are no hard and fast rules regarding the lifting of the corporate veil.
Botha v Van Niekerk:
• The seller must have suffered an “unconscionable injustice” before the court could lift
the veil.
Cape Pacific:
• The court confirmed that it has no general discretion simply to disregard a company’s
separate legal personality.
• The separate legal personality of a company should not be easily ignored.
• However, circumstances do exist for example fraud, dishonesty or other improper
conduct where it would be justifiable to pierce the corporate veil.
• Botha v Van Niekerk was too rigid.
• The court indicated that it would adopt a more flexible approach namely of taking all the
facts of each case into consideration when determining if the veil should be pierced.
• A balance should also be struck between the need to persevere the separate legal
identity of the company against policy considerations in favour of piercing the corporate
veil. The veil could also be pierced in relation to a specific transaction.
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Hülse-Reutter:
• Agreed that court has no general discretion simply to disregard a company’s separate
legal personality.
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