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RLR-V.4-2016

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Supreme Court

Julia Shop, as a sole proprietorship, lacks legal personality and cannot sue in its own name; only the business owner, Mukandahiro Julienne, has standing to bring a claim. Therefore, the claim filed by Julia Shop was inadmissible and the lower courts' judgments must be quashed.

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Commercial law RLR V.4-2016

ECOBANK RWANDA Ltd v. JULIA SHOP

Court
Supreme Court
Case number
RCOMAA 0042/14/CS

The Supreme Court held that JULIA SHOP, as a sole proprietorship business name, lacked legal personality and could not sue in its own name. The appeal succeeded.

  • Legal personality
  • Capacity to sue
  • Sole proprietorship
  • Business names
  • Admissibility of claims
  • Legal-personality
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