Ostensible Authority in UK Law

  • Ostensible Authority in Public Law
    • No. 27-1, March 1999
    • Federal Law Review
  • Acting with Common Humanity
    • No. 35-4, July 1972
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... to be held to be invalid because the competent authority took irrelevant considerations into account or failed to take ... reasonably incidental to the execution of his task.5 Ostensible authority. There are in Burt v. Cousins dicta to the effect ... ...
  • Still in the Woods: Gridlock in the IMF and the World Bank Puts Multilateralism at Risk
    • No. 6-1, February 2015
    • Global Policy
    The Western hegemony of the past 200 years is ending as power shifts towards the East and as Western states lose the authority to uphold a rules‐based multilateral order. In the wake of the Great C...
    ... ... as power shifts towards the East and as Western states lose the authority to uphold a rules-based multilateral order. In the wake of the Great Crash ... IMF and the World Bank have substantially failed to meet their ostensible objectives. First, in both organizations the developed countries gained ... ...
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 39-1, January 1976
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... me leave to enter on B’s land and A has no actual authority to do so, I am a trespasser if I act on this permission: ... a breach of the licensing laws) as within Taffe's ostensible authority. Megaw L.J." indeed referred to ostensible authority ... ...
  • Unincorporated Associations Reform
    • No. , June 2009
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 507-511
    ... ... legal personality, cannot be the principal, the usual rules of ostensible authority cannot apply.1010Tinnevelly Sugar Refining Co Ltd v Mirrless, ... ...
  • Agency in Hire‐Purchase Transactions
    • No. 27-4, July 1964
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... e; first, the agent (the dealer) may have express authority from the prin- cipal (the finance company) to act as his ... is generally termed ‘‘ apparent )’ or “ ostensibleauthority.12 In contrast with the case of usual ... ...
  • Sub‐Bailments and Consent
    • No. 58-3, May 1995
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... Whilst the original authority for this proposition was by no means clear,5 there has been ... be relevant if there were recourse to the doctrine of ostensible authority under the law of agen~y.~ This, however, still leaves ... ...
  • Notes of Cases
    • No. 34-3, May 1971
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... In 1960 the local planning authority refused permission to the owner of land to build on it. This ... If an officer, acting within the scope of his ostensible authority, makes a representation on which another acts, then ... ...
  • Dishonesty in Cheque and Credit Card Holders
    • No. 48-4, November 1984
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... them but by a bank customer who exceeds his/her authority to use a cheque book or credit card, i.e. someone who has abused ... the customer or credit card user with implied or ostensible authority to draw the cheque or use the credit card, as the case ... ...
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 15-4, October 1952
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... proved to be invalid.3 His mother, on signing thc authority of discharge, undertook to be responsible for his proper care ... done by the agent within the limits of that ostensible authority. But the learned judge, Donovan J., soon dealt ... ...
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