Apparent Authority in UK Law
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Reluctant Bedfellows: Want of Authority and Knowing Receipt
The case note examines the recent decision of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in Thanakharn Kasikorn Thai Chamkat (Mahachon) v Akai Holdings Ltd, where Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury adopted the ...... ... ) v Akai Holdings Ltd , where Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury adopted the test of irrationality in determining whether a defaulting agent had apparent authority to act on behalf of his principal to confer benefits on a third party.His Lordship further held that a concurrent claim in knowing receipt ... ...
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Syntagmatic relationships and indexing consistency on a larger scale
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine interindexer consistency on a larger scale than other studies have done to determine if group consensus is reached by larger numbers of indexers a...... ... apparent authority of communally developed informationresources, communally ... ...
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BUREAUCRACY IN A COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION
This paper reports the results of a questionnaire survey of academic staff at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT). On the question of bureaucracy in its technical rather than its ...... ... A number of questions were asked on authority relations and it was apparent that those in the sample perceiving a clear ... ...
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Parad0x and Pragmatism: ?Virtual Immunities' and the Imposition of Liability in Negligence Claims Against Local Authorities
The field of public authority liability has attracted much attention through apparent uncertainty of law. The issue of immunity for local authorities, due to policy considerations, has received div...... ... David Hum phrey s ... The field of public authority liability has attracted much attention through apparent uncertainty of ... ...
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A Cross Cultural Study of Hostility and Aggression
This article analyses and compares the structure of hostile attitudes and aggressive behaviour of two national groups, English and Italian, taking into account the national stereotypes involved. Wh...... ... apparent. Whetherthis is a projection of his own short-comings or a reflection of ... his hostility/ag-gression to avoid open conflict withthose in authority. One satisfying wayof dealing with these repressed or sup-pressed feelings ... ...
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On the way to planet politics: from disciplinary demise to cosmopolitical coordination
From climatic chaos to mass extinction, from ‘geoengineering’ to unprecedented urbanisation, world politics has, in recent decades, become inescapably planetary. Recent discussions concerning ‘Plan...... ... In particular, an apparent disinclination to address serious differences as regards the authority of ... ...
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Authority and Necessity in the Law of Agency
... ... : in the absence of any express authority from the cargo-owners, might it be characterised as a form of implied or apparent authority? At first instance, Sheen J decided in favour of the salvors but the Court of Appeal allowed the cargo-owners’ ... ...
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Constitutionalism and Crisis Narratives in Post-Brexit Politics
The Brexit vote has sparked renewed criticism of the United Kingdom’s ad hoc constitutional arrangements, particularly in relation to the status of popular sovereignty. While the people is politica...... ... people is politically recognised as ‘sovereign’ through the apparent unassailability of its referendum verdict, this sovereignty has no legal ... crisis that followed the vote and that the uncertain nature and authority of referendums represents a distinct source of constitutional crisis in ... ...
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Tan Cheng Han, The Law of Agency
... ... of this can be found in the fact that the English definition of apparent authority is often relied upon in the courts of both countries. Neither ... ...
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THE UNAUTHORISED AGENT: PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE LAW. Ed by Danny Busch and Laura J Macgregor Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org), 2009. xxxiv + 480 pp. ISBN 97805212863889. £70.
... ... Its focus is three important but problematic areas of agency law: apparent authority, ratification, and the falsus procurator (what English law would ... ...
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