Law of Agency in UK Law
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Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corporation
... ... would thus have been entitled to assume, on the authority of the principle in Turquand's case, and on more general principles of the law of agency, that the directors of the borrowing company were acting properly and regularly in the internal management of its affairs and were borrowing for the ... ...
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Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
... ... There are judicial observations which tend to support the notion that it is, as Lord Sumption says in his para 86, an exception to the agency-based rules of attribution, which is based on public policy — or common sense, rationality and justice, according to the judicial observations ... ...
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FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious
... ... an agent or other fiduciary makes an unauthorised profit by taking advantage of an opportunity which came to his attention as a result of his agency and judges have reached the conclusion that the Rule applied. Examples include Carter v Palmer (1842) 8 Cl & F 657 , where a barrister who ... ...
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VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
... ... achieved by piercing the veil of incorporation could have been achieved by a less controversial route —for instance, through the law of agency ( In re Darby , Ex p Brougham [1911] 1 KB 95 , Gilford , and Jones v Lipman [1962] 1 WLR 832) , through statutory interpretation ( Daimler ... ...
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Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
... ... of the claimant himself, not conduct for which he is vicariously liable or which is otherwise attributed to him under principles of the law of agency ... 9 The first answer to Mr Sumption's case advanced on behalf of S&R by Mr Brindle QC founds on that qualification. He submits that S&R's ... ...
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Mohamud v W M Morrison Supermarkets Plc
... ... what is meant by the expressions "acting within his authority", "acting in the course of his employment" and "acting within the scope of his agency" (as applied to an agent) is not easy to define, but he said that whichever expression is used, it must be construed liberally ... 23 Lord ... ...
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Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and Others
... ... Mr Mehra made a fraudulent misrepresentation intending SCB to rely upon it and SCB did rely upon it. The fact that by virtue of the law of agency his representation and the knowledge with which he made it would also be attributed to Oakprime would be of interest in an action against Oakprime ... ...
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Swain v The Law Society
... ... Beswick [1968] A.C. 58 ... The principal means by which the courts have tried to mitigate this reproach are by extensions of the concepts of agency and of constructive trusteeship of the benefit of promises, and by the recognition of an innominate equitable right, although not coupled with a ... ...
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Hurst v Bryk
... ... It is essentially a contract of agency. The incidents of that contract are extensively provided for in the Partnership Act 1890. As between the parties to the partnership agreement, the ... ...
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Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
... ... In civil law, apart from certain statutory duties, this presents no conceptual difficulties. Under the law of agency the physical acts and state of mind of the agent are in law ascribed to the principal, and if the agent is a natural person it matters not whether ... ...
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