“…These principles of agency apply equally to companies. In Meridian Global Funds Management Asia Ltd v Securities Commission[1995] 2 AC 500, 506 Lord Hoffmann referred to the rules (called “rules of attribution”) which determine which acts “count as acts of the company”. They are contained primaril…”
“…with the relevant rules of attribution: see the wellknown observations of Lord Hoffmann in Meridian Global Funds Management AsiaLimited v Securities Commission [1995] 2 AC 500 (PC) at 506-507. But does paragraph (1)(b), properly construed, go further, and require a defendant to make reasonable enquires of third parties before it can …”
“…“As Lord Hoffmann made clear in Meridian Global [[1995] 2 AC 500] the key to any question of attribution is ultimately always to be found in considerations of context and purpose. The question is: whose act or knowledge or s…”