Agent and Principal in UK Law

  • Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Octubre 1984
    ... ... This authority to communicate a decision in an agent who has no authority to take a decision is so paradoxical that it comes as ... to represent or warrant that he has authority? And how does his principal hold him out as having authority to hold himself out as having it except ... ...
  • FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 Julio 2014
    ... ... on the issue of whether a bribe or secret commission received by an agent is held by the agent on trust for his principal, or whether the principal ... ...
  • Luxor (Eastbourne) Ltd v Cooper
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Diciembre 1940
    ... ... on the vendor to complete the transaction if the commission agent's nominee remains able and willing to buy does not extend to cases where ... may be occupied in endeavouring to dispose of the property of a principal fall into several obvious classes. There is the Class in which the agent ... ...
  • Phipps v Boardman
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Noviembre 1966
    ... ... 392 said that the question to be decided was: "Whether an agent, director, a trustee or other person in an analogous fiduciary position, ... The most usual and typical case of this nature is that of principal and agent. The rule in such cases is compendiously expressed to be that an ... ...
  • ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two Other Actions (1st Appeal) ARBUTHNOTT and Others v FAGAN and FELTRIM UNDERWRITING AGENCIES Ltd and Others and Two
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Julio 1994
    ... ... a Name at Lloyd's and who is not himself or herself an underwriting agent must appoint an underwriting agent to act on his or her behalf, pursuant ... 36 (3) There was a direct contractual relationship of principal and agent between Names and the managing agents of Syndicates in which the ... ...
  • Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Febrero 1942
    ... ... have duties to discharge of a fiduciary nature towards their principal, and it is a rule of universal application that no one having such duties ... the nearest analogy to their position would be that of a managing agent of a mercantile house with large powers, but that there was no analogy ... ...
  • Agip (Africa) Ltd v Jackson
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1991
    ... ... Jackson reported that the Company has been invited to act as Agent for Euro Arabian…in the receipt of monies from Tunisia. This formed part ... 28 Miss Freeman was the principal in charge of foreign services at the High Holborn branch. The branch had ... ...
  • Secret Hotels2 Ltd (Formerly Med Hotels Ltd) v The Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs
    • Supreme Court
    • 05 Marzo 2014
    ... ... 4 When a potential customer (be it travel agent or holiday-maker) logged onto the website, she would see some "Terms of ... 1 January 2007 it was replaced by Directive 2006/112/EC ("the Principal VAT Directive"). As the two Directives contain effectively identical, ... ...
  • Freeman & Lockyer (A Firm)(Plaintiffs) Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd and Shiv Kumar Kapoor (Defendants)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 Enero 1964
    ... ... Rowat's Wharf Limited on the ground that In that case: "The agent whose authority was relied on had been acting to ttie knowledge of the ... (1927 volume 1 King's Bench Division, page 826) and the principal case" ... 23 In the present case the plaintiffs do not have to rely on ... ...
  • Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 Abril 2015
    ... ... attribute an action by, or a state of mind of, a company director or agent to the company or the agent's principal in relation to a particular claim ... ...
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