Bowstead & Reynolds On Agency 23rd ed with 2nd Supplement

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, published in December 2023, has now been updated with the 1st Supplement published in December 2024.

The 23rd edition was 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

The first supplement to the 23rd edition takes account of all developments in agency, including new text (and supporting cases) on, among others:

• Chapter 2: imposter agents, incapax principals, acts which may be performed via an agent, dual agency, ratification, and true estoppel;
• Chapter 3: liability of principal for bribery by its agents, co-agents, and usual authority of different types of agent;
• Chapter 6: the agent’s duty to follow instructions, ambiguous instructions, duties of care and skill, duties prior to appointment, undue influence of agent, fiduciary duties, and remedy of account;
• Chapter 7: illegality and remuneration, and interpleader;
• Chapter 8: authority to make gifts, non-delegable duties, imputed knowledge, and bribery.