Department of Trade and Industry v Cedenio: QBD 22 Mar 2001

The provisions of the Act which required the owner of a business to be identified, were satisfied by the owner of the business signing his name on correspondence. The Act could not be read so as to require the addition of some phrase such as ‘trading as’ Similarly there was no requirement to add an explicit statement that a particular address was an address for service.

Citations:

Times 22-Mar-2001

Statutes:

Business Names Act 1985 4(1) 4(6)

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Commercial, Crime

Updated: 25 October 2022; Ref: scu.79912