Can an individual be considered to be the directing mind of a company?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Orr v. Metropolitan Toronto Condominium Corporation No. 1056, 2011 CanLII 66010 (ON SC):
Where an individual may be considered to be the directing mind of a company, liability attributed to him or her may equally be attributed to the company. For this to be the case, however, that individual must be conceptualized as being at the core of the company’s operations: “In order to trigger its operation…the actoremployee [sic] ..must be the “ego”, the “centre” of the corporate personality, the “vital organ” of the body corporate, the “alter ego” of the employer corporation or its “directing mind.” Dredge v. R, supra.
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