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.

List of contents

1. Introduction: the demand for concealment, avoidance, and impunity; 2. What is meant by "ownership"? 3. Privacy, confidentiality, and corporate governance; 4. Disclosure and registration initiatives 5. Chimeric structures: concealment, avoidance, and impunity; 6. Crypto-assets; 7. Final reflections

About the author

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 Brookes University, UK.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Beckett, Beckett Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2024
• EAN: 9781032537603
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253760-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: The Law of Financial Crime
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, LAW / Corporate, business strategy, Legal aspects of criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Company law, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects