Control of a company, including the ability to cause it to perform any corporate act, does not establish that the company holds its assets on bare trust for the controlling person. A trust requires an obligation on the trustee to deal with trust property for the benefit of the beneficiary. Where the Crown advances two alternative bases for conviction and one is unsustainable in law, the verdict must be quashed if it cannot be determined which basis the jury applied.
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