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DHN Food Distributors Ltd v Tower Hamlets LBC

[1976] 1 WLR 852 (CA)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (England and Wales)
Year1976
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

In limited circumstances a group of companies may be treated as a single economic entity, lifting the veil between parent and subsidiary, so the parent could recover disturbance compensation on compulsory acquisition of subsidiary-owned land.

Area of Law

c

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