Apparent Authority in UK Law

  • Freeman & Lockyer (A Firm)(Plaintiffs) Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd and Shiv Kumar Kapoor (Defendants)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 Enero 1964
    ... ... on the true Inference from all the facts Mr Kapoor had actual authority to engage the plaintiffs on behasf of the defendant company; alternatively ... Lindley said at page 102: "The persons dealing with him" (the apparent managing director) "must look to the articles, and see that the managing ... ...
  • Waugh v H.B. Clifford & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1981
    ... ... any concluded and unconditional contract, and denied the authority of Messrs. Boys & Maughan as Second Defendants claiming against them ... his client for consent: and on the other hand the ostensible or apparent authority of a solicitor to compromise an action on behalf of his client ... ...
  • Criterion Properties Plc v Stratford UK Properties LLC and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junio 2004
    ... ... the agreement on behalf of Criterion did so within the actual or apparent scope of their authority. This issue, in turn, depends upon an application ... ...
  • Hely-Hutchinson v Brayhead Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Junio 1967
    ... ... are not binding on the Company, because Mr Richards had no authority,actual or ostensible, to write those letter on and that Lord Suirdale, ... consider at length the law on the authority of an agent, actual, apparent, or ostensible. That has bean done in the judgments of this Court in the ... ...
  • Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 Octubre 1984
    ... ... signature and denied that he had signed on their behalf: he had authority to sell the vessel but not to conclude or sign the three year charterparty ... The very reason for that requirement was his lack of any apparent or ostensible authority. The plaintiffs knew that his authority was ... ...
  • Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v Salaam
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Diciembre 2002
    ... ... in the ordinary course of the business of the firm, or with the authority of his co-partners, loss or injury is caused to any person not being a ... party is defrauded by an employee acting within the scope of his apparent authority. The classic instance of this is Lloyd v Grace, Smith & Co ... ...
  • Jones v Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and another (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening); Mitchell v Al-Dali;
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Junio 2006
    ... ... not, save in certain specified instances, assert its judicial authority over another. The second principle, of more recent vintage but of the ... In short, the question is whether they were acting with apparent authority." This approach was endorsed by the ... ...
  • Luxor (Eastbourne) Ltd v Cooper
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Diciembre 1940
    ... ... Garton, who had the authority of the directors to deal with the matter. The next day Mr. Ewbank told the ... It would be outside the apparent authority of the appellant Companies' Solicitors to bind the Companies by ... ...
  • Presentaciones Musicales SA v Secunda and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Noviembre 1993
    ... ... English solicitors in the name of that plaintiff without proper authority ... 5 The writ was issued on the 19th April 1988 by ... As is apparent from the judgment of Lindley LJ at 308–9 , it was an acceptance which ... ...
  • Wheeler v JJ Saunders Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Diciembre 1995
    ... ... the case of a grant you may imply a grant of such continuous and apparent easements or such easements as are necessary to the reasonable enjoyment ... doorstep? Surprisingly, there appears to have been no direct authority on the point until recently. There have however been cases dealing with ... ...
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