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Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency, 22th Edition (2nd Supplement only)

Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency, 22th Edition (2nd Supplement only)

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  • Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
  • ISBN: 9780414109582
  • Published In: October 2022
  • Format: Paperback
  • Jurisdiction: Commonwealth, European Union, U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 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
    Including 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)

    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;
    Including 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);

    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;
    Including 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)

    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)

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