The application of the evasion principle by Lord Sumption in Petrodel v Prest is critically inspected and investigated to highlight how the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil has been applied by the English Courts. To this end, it is pinpointed that the scope of the doctrine has been narrowed, and the courts frequently misinterpreted the evasion principle, as evinced by the recent case Akhemodova v Akhemdov and Wood v Baker