Principle

CIVIL PROCEDURE – Parties – Business Names – Capacity to Be Sued Eo Nomine – Individual Carrying on Business in Name Other Than Own

Area of law
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Court
Supreme Court

An individual trading under a business name other than their own may be sued in that business name as if it were a firm's name. The rules for suing firms apply mutatis mutandis. This allows claimants to sue the business name without first ascertaining the…

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