Law of Agency in UK Law

  • Bilta (UK) Ltd (in Liquidation) v Nazir
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 April 2015
    ......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 ......
  • Rolled Steel Products (Holdings) Ltd v British Steel Corporation
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 June 1984
    ...... 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 ......
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
    • Supreme Court
    • 06 February 2013
    ...... 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 ......
  • Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 06 November 2002
    ......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. ......
  • Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2009
    ...... 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 ......
  • FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 July 2014
    ...... 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 ......
  • Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
    • House of Lords
    • 31 March 1971
    ......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 ......
  • Investment Trust Companies v Revenue and Customs Commissioner
    • Supreme Court
    • 11 April 2017
    ......In that situation, the agent is the proxy of his principal, by virtue of the law of agency. The series of transactions between the claimant and the agent, and between the agent and the defendant, is therefore legally equivalent to a ......
  • Morris v Kanssen, sub nom Kanssen v Rialto (West End) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 1946
    ...... 50 One of the fundamental maxims of the law is the maxim "omnia praesumuntur rita esse acta" . It has many applications. In the law of agency it is illustrated by the doctrine of ostensible authority. In the law relating to corporations its application is very similar. The wheels of ......
  • Mohamud v W M Morrison Supermarkets Plc
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 March 2016
    ...... 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 ......
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