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 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.
Key new case for this edition includes:
Chapter 1: Medsted Associates Ltd v Canaccord Genuity Wealth (International) Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 83; [2019] 1 W.L.R. 4481; Singularis Holdings Ltd (in liq) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2019] UKSC 50; [2019] 3 W.L.R. 997; Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti [2019] UKSC 55; Vedanta Resources Plc v Lungowe [2019] UKSC 20
Chapter 2: Ramsook v Crossley [2018] UKPC 9; Travelers Insurance Company Ltd v XYZ [2019] UKSC 48; Ukraine v Law Debenture Trust Corp Plc [2018] EWCA Civ 2026; [2019] 2 W.L.R. 655
Chapter 3: Taylor v Rhino Overseas Inc [2020] EWCA Civ 353
Chapter 5: Ciban Management Corp v Citco (BVI) Ltd [2020] UKPC 21
Chapter 6: Interactive Technology Corp Ltd v Ferster [2018] EWCA Civ 1594 at [16]; Auden McKenzie (Pharma Division) Ltd v Patel [2019] EWCA Civ 2291; Lehtimaki v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33; Candey Ltd v Crumpler [2020] EWCA Civ 26; Marino v FM Capital Partners Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 245.
Chapter 7: Bates v Post Office Ltd (No 3) [2019] EWHC 606 (QB); Barton v Gwyn-Jones [2019] EWCA Civ 1999
Chapter 8: Filatona Trading Ltd v Navigator Equities Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 109; Kaefer Aislamientos SA de CV v AMS Drilling Mexico SA de CV [2019] EWCA Civ 10; Ciban Management Corp v Citco (BVI) Ltd [2020] UKPC 21; East Asia Co Ltd v PT Satria Tirtatama Energindo [2019] UKPC 30; High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v Prince Muffakham Jah [2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch); [2020] 2 W.L.R. 699; Barclays Bank Plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13; [2020] 2 W.L.R. 960; Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12; [2020] 2 W.L.R. 941; Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2019] UKSC 50; [2019] 3 W.L.R. 997
Chapter 9: Aidiniantz v The Sherlock Holmes International Society Ltd [2016] EWHC 1392 (Ch); [2016] 4 W.L.R. 173; Zoya Ltd v Shaikh Nasir Ahmed [2016] EWHC 2249 (Ch); [2016] 4 W.L.R. 174; Bilta (UK) Ltd v Natwest Markets Plc [2020] EWHC 546 (Ch)
Chapter 10: Gwinnutt v George [2019] EWCA Civ 656; W Nagel (A Firm) v Pluczenik Diamond Co NV [2018] EWCA
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