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Beneficial Ownership and Legal Responsibility: Concealment, Avoidance and Impunity
This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other. It presents a definition of the concept of beneficial ownership, the reasons for its concealment, and failures in international legal structures and arrangements.
Author(s) | By Paul Beckett. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 336 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 12 Mar 2024 |
Availability | Not yet available |
This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other. It presents a definition of the concept of beneficial ownership, the reasons for its concealment, and failures in international legal structures and arrangements.
1. Introduction. The Demand for Concealment, Avoidance and Impunity; 2. What is meant by "ownership"? 3. Pirvacy, Confidentiality and Corporate Governance; 4. Disclosure and Registration Initiatives 5. Chimeric structures: Concealment, Avoidance and Impun
Paul Beckett is an Isle of Man Advocate and Notary Public and an English Solicitor. He is Tynwald Commissioner for Administration (Tynwald Ombudsman) for the Manx parliament and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Sciences, Oxford B