Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency 23rd Edition

Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency 23rd Edition

Professor Peter G Watts

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Date: 19/12/2023

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Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency is the essential reference source for commercial practitioners. Part of the long-established Common Law Library, this new edition updates all relevant aspects of law and how they relate to agency agreements, including contract law, administrative law, tort, commercial/company law, the law of property and the conflict of laws.

The 23rd edition has been fully updated to take account of all developments in agency, including new text on:

  • implied limits to actual authority and onus of proof of authority;
  • sub-agency, and agent’s rights to indemnity;
  • vicarious liability;
  • and undisclosed principals.

The text has been updated with all key cases, including:

  • Wood v Commercial First Business Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 471 on bribes and secret commissions
  • Law Debenture Trust Corp Plc v Ukraine [2023] UKSC 11 on capacity, actual and apparent authority
  • Philipp v Barclays Bank UK Plc [2023] UKSC 25 on actual and apparent authority
  • Barton v Morris [2023] UKSC 3 on scope of quantum meruit for services by agent
  • Barclay-Watt v Alpha Panareti Public Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1169 on agent’s liability for misrepresentation and joint tortfeasance
  • And new cases from Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand
Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency is the essential reference source for commercial practitioners. Part of the long-established Common Law Library, this edition updates all relevant aspects of law and how they relate to agency agreements, including contract law, administrative law, tort, commercial/company law, the law of property and the conflict of laws. 
This second cumulative supplement brings the main work up-to-date with the latest developments. Among the changes and new case law covered are: 
 
Chapter 1: Agency inferred on part of co-owner; obligations of party to litigation to discover materials held by “agents”; attribution of acts and knowledge to companies; agency of a company for a related company   
Ivy Technology Ltd v Martin (Comm); Quartz Assets LLC v Kestrel Coal Midco Pty Ltd (Comm); Aquila Advisory Ltd v Faichney (UKSC) 
 
Chapter 2: Capacity of corporations; execution requirements for companies; acts on behalf of companies where statute requires personal action; authority to act illegally; ratification
Ceredigion Recycling & Furniture Team v Pope (EWCA); SR Projects Ltd v Rampersad (UKPC) 24; Mars Capital Finance Ltd v Hussain (Ch); Northwood Solihull Ltd v Fearn (EWCA); Gulf Petrochem FZC v OCM Singapore Njord Holdings Pte Ltd (Comm); Canara Bank v MCS International Ltd (Comm)
 
Chapter 3: Evidence of agency; when self-benefit bars actual authority; Mental Capacity Act 2005; actual authority of individual directors of companies; implied authority of lawyers in litigation 
Ivy Technology Ltd v Martin (Comm);  Chandler v Lombardi (Ch); Rushbrooke UK Ltd v 4 Designs Concept Ltd (Ch); R v Mallick (EWCA Crim) 
 
Chapter 5: Accountability of sub-agent to head agent in relation to bribe-taking; relationship between bank and mandatary in respect of customer, the Quincecare duty
Philipp v Barclays Bank (EWCA); Royal Bank of Scotland International Ltd v JPSPC (UKPC); Stanford International Bank Ltd v HSBC Bank Plc (EWCA)
 
Chapter 6: Impostors purporting to be agents; agent’s liability to principal in tort; duties of care and skill; conflict of interest; trust of assets in possession of agent; account of profits; misuse of confidential information; duties arising on agent in appointment process; accounting for profits; trust obligations of agents; 
Business Mortgage Finance 4 Plc v Hussain (Ch); Mahoney v Renwick (Ch); Ceredigion Recycling & Furniture Team v Pope (EWCA); Spire Property Development LLP v Withers LLP (EWCA); Brearley v Higgs & Sons (Ch); Al-Subaihi v Al-Sanea (Comm); Mulsanne Insurance Co Ltd v Marshmallow Financial Services Ltd (Ch); Maranello Rosso Ltd v Lohomij BV (Ch); Prickly Bay Waterside Ltd v British American Insurance Co Ltd (UKPC); Trafalgar Multi Asset Trading Co Ltd v Hadley (Ch) 
 
Chapter 7: Duties of principals to agents; director’s claim to remuneration; effective cause as entitlement to commission; loss-of-chance damages for preventing earning of commission; extent of agent’s right to indemnity; being put on inquiry by agent’s conflict of interest;
Benyatov v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd (QB); Clevely v Atkinson (Ch); Musst Holdings Ltd v Astra Asset Management UK Ltd (Ch); O'Connell v LPE Support Ltd (Ch)
 
Chapter 8: Undisclosed principals; apparent authority from a course of dealing; no representation in a mere payment; apparent authority of chairperson of directors; ultra vires doctrine in law of corporations; vicarious liability; undue influence on attorney
Canara Bank v MCS International Ltd (Comm); SR Projects Ltd v Rampersad (UKPC); Ceredigion Recycling & Furniture Team v Pope (EWCA); Blackpool Football Club Ltd v DSN (EWCA); Chell v Tarmac Cement and Lime Ltd (EWCA); Enal v Singh (UKPC)
 
Chapter 9: Status of stakeholders; liability of agents to third party in negligence; liability for joint tortfeasance; immunity of agents for inducing principal’s breach of contract; liability in dishonest assistance; liability in knowing receipt
PDVSA Servicios SA v Clyde & Co LLP (Ch); Various North Point Pall Mall Purchasers v 174 Law Solicitors Ltd (Ch); Barclay-Watt v Alpha Panareti Public Ltd (EWCA Civ); BASF Corp v Carpmaels and Ransford (Ch); Brearley v Higgs & Sons (Ch); Norsand Consultancy Ltd v Anandanadarajah(Ch); IBM United Kingdom Ltd v Lzlabs GmbH (TCC); Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd v Ruhan (Comm); Byers v Saudi National Bank (EWCA)
 
Chapter 11: Software as goods under Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations
Software Incubator Ltd v Computer Associates Ltd (C-410/19)
 
Chapter 12: Governing law of actual authority; governing law of ratification
Canara Bank v MCS International Ltd (Comm); Kreditanstalt Für Wiederaufbau v Azov-Don Shipping Co JSC (Comm); Deutsche Bank AG London v Comune di Busto Arsizio (Comm)

 

Table of Contents

  1. Nature of the subject;
  2. Creation of agency;
  3. Authority of agents;
  4. Agency of necessity;
  5. Sub-agency;
  6. Duties of agents towards their principals;
  7. Rights of agents against their principals;
  8. Relations between principals and third parties;
  9. Relations between agents and third parties;
  10. Termination of authority;
  11. Commercial agents;
  12. A note on the conflict of laws;
  13. Appendix 1 – Commercial Agents Regulations, 1993
  14. Nature of the subject
  15. Creation of agency
  16. Authority of agents
  17. Agency of necessity
  18. Sub-agency
  19. Duties of agents towards their principals
  20. Rights of agents against their principals
  21. Relations between principals and third parties
  22. Relations between agents and third parties
  23. Termination of authority
  24. Commercial agents
  25. A note on the conflict of laws