公司人格否认:裁判逻辑、检视与导正
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Denial of corporate personality:Trial logic, inspection and guidance
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    法人独立人格与公司人格否认是现代公司责任制度的基石,公司人格否认是对股东有限责任的修正及补救。债权人为实现其债权,往往考虑最大限度增加可求偿的主体,公司的股东甚至关联主体进入其视野。《公司法》第20条就股东在一定条件下对公司债务承担连带责任的规定,成为债权人要求股东和/或关联主体承担清偿责任的法律依据,也成为股东或关联主体抗辩之要点。分析最高人民法院有关公司人格否认的裁判认定,人格混同、资本显著不足、过度支配和控制的案件所占比例最高,这与《全国法院民商事审判工作会议纪要》的具体规定呈现部分契合;最高人民法院第15号指导性案例亦为关联公司之间人格否认的认定,提供了类案参考价值。但是,不管最高人民法院第15号指导性案例,还是《全国法院民商事审判工作会议纪要》仍无法全面解决司法实践中的问题,亟需从理论上对公司人格否认的适用问题进行深入梳理和研讨,以推动公司人格否认制度之完善。回归公司责任制度的基本法理,公司人格否认的内核是股东有限责任与债权人利益保护的法权博弈与公私角力,是公司股东责任的有限性与股东权利滥用之间的法益平衡。公司人格否认并非是为了消解公司的法人独立性,而是将滥用权利的股东排除于股东有限责任的保护之外,将其与公司视为同一责任主体,对公司债权人承担连带责任。制度完善的考量因素,当以权利滥用定性公司人格否认的正当性基础,不仅"正向刺破",亦或是"反向刺破" "关联刺破",权利滥用都可为法院的裁判提供正当性。而权利滥用的抽象化与形态化的相互增益,可以打破制定法条款的局限性与滥用行为各形态的救济困境,使人格否认从立法向司法跃进。司法审查股东滥用权利行为与损害债权人利益之间的因果关系,并赋予债权人公司人格否认与损害赔偿的法适用选择权,既符合法理又可以避免债权人的权利滥用;司法裁判要对股东权利滥用进行扩大解释及导入利益衡平机制进行法益衡量,在股东有限责任与债权人利益保护之间寻求平衡。

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    The independent personality of legal persons and the denial of corporate personality are the cornerstones of modern corporate liability system. The denial of corporate personality is the amendment and remedy for the limited liability of shareholders. In order to realize their claims, creditors often consider maximizing the subject that can be claimed, and the company's shareholders and even related subjects enter their field of vision. Article 20 of the Company Law stipulates that shareholders bear joint and several liability for the company's debts under certain conditions, which has become the legal basis for creditors to require shareholders and/or related parties to assume repayment liabilities, and has also become the main point of shareholders or related parties' defense. Analyzing the Supreme People's Court's judgments on corporate personality denial, cases with mixed personality, significant lack of capital, excessive dominance and control account for the highest proportion, which is partially in line with the specific provisions of the Minutes of the National Courts' Civil and Commercial Trial Work Conference. The Supreme People's Court Guiding Case No.15 also provides a reference value for similar cases for the determination of personality denial between affiliated companies. However, regardless of the Supreme People's Court Guiding Case No.15 or the Minutes of the National Courts' Civil and Commercial Trial Work Conference, the problems in judicial practice cannot be fully resolved. Therefore, it is urgent to conduct in-depth research on the application of corporate personality denial theoretically, so as to promote the improvement of the corporate personality denial system. Returning to the basic legal principle of corporate liability system, the core of corporate personality denial is the legal game and public-private struggle between the limited liability of shareholders and the protection of creditors' interests, and the balance of legal interests between the limited liability of corporate shareholders and the abuse of shareholders' rights. The purpose of corporate personality denial is not to eliminate corporate independence, but to exclude shareholders who abuse their rights from the protection of limited liability of shareholders, and to regard them as the same subject of responsibility as the company and bear joint and several liability to the company's creditors. As to considering factors for the improvement of the system, abuse of rights should be used to characterize the legitimacy of corporate personality denial. Not only in "forward piercing", but also in "reverse piercing" and "correlated piercing", abuse of rights can provide legitimacy for judgement of the court. The mutual gain of abstraction and formalization of abuse of rights can break the limitation of statutory provisions and the relief dilemma of various forms of abuse, and make personality denial leap from legislation to judiciary. Judicial reviewing the causal relationship between shareholders' abuse of rights and damage to the interests of creditors, and granting creditors the choice of law application of corporate personality denial and damage compensation, are in line with legal principles and can avoid the abuse of creditors' rights. Judicial judgments should expand the interpretation of abuse of shareholders' rights and introduce an interest balance mechanism to measure legal interests, and seek a balance between the limited liability of shareholders and the protection of creditors' interests.

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钟三宇.公司人格否认:裁判逻辑、检视与导正[J].重庆大学学报社会科学版,2022,28(3):242-253. DOI:10.11835/j. issn.1008-5831. jg.2022.04.019

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