Description
Edited by: Peter G. Watts
ISBN13: 9780414117457
Previous Edition ISBN: 9780414109582
To be Published: December 2023
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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
- 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
- Appendix 1 – Commercial Agents Regulations, 1993
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