Selskabers partsevne – et krydsfelt mellem selskabsretten og procesretten

In this article, the legal capacity to be a party to legal proceedings is discussed in the context of company law meeting procedural law. In Danish law, the “ordinary” capacity to be a party to legal proceedings for entities with a legal personality is developed in codified company law provisions and in company case law as far as establishing and ending this capacity is concerned. However, uncodified procedural law principles may in some circumstances intervene with company law and thereby disregard from both company law principles and certain procedural law principles, when setting aside the “ordinary” company law capacity to be a party to legal proceedings. In other cases, judges grant a capacity to be a party to legal proceedings to groups of individuals, who would not have such a capacity following common company law rules or principles. This would be a “special” and/or “requisite” (limited) capacity to be a party to legal proceedings. The article concludes, that the capacity to be a party to legal proceedings cannot be defined as absolute.