Petrodel Resources v Prest [2013] 2 AC 415

Daniel Lightman QC represented Mrs Prest, the successful appellant, in a landmark Supreme Court decision on the circumstances in which the court can pierce the corporate veil to make orders requiring the transfer to a former wife of assets and property held by offshore companies connected to the husband.

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