This new work fills the gap for a much-needed clear, accessible and
easy-to-use book on agency. It provides a useful reminder of the principles of agency law
for experienced practitioners. It is also of interest to students looking for an
approachable text on this topic.
The Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993, which implement the
European Directive relating to Self Employed Commercial Agents (86/653/EEC), have come to
assume growing practical importance and there is now a significant body of English (and
European) case law interpreting and illustrating the operation of this body of law. In
consequence, questions arising out of the Regulations have become a regular feature of the
commercial practitioner's work. This new work reflects this change of legal focus and
explains the Regulations in significant detail.
In addition to covering the general principles of agency law, the work addresses the
application of law and the activities of particular classes of commercial agents operating
in the major commercial centers, such as finance and banking, and international trade.
The content includes discussion of actual and apparent authority of an agent, agency of
necessity, want of authority and ratification as well as the legal relations between
principal and agent, between principal and third party and between agent and third party,
sub-agency and termination of agency.
Roderick Munday is the Director of Studies in Law at Peterhouse and is
Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
1: Introductory Matters
2: The Actual Authority of an Agent
3: The Apparent Authority of an Agent
4: Agency of Necessity
5: Want of Authority and Ratification
6: Legal Relations between Principal and Agent
7: Legal Relations between Principal and Third Party
8: Unauthorised Dispositions of Property by the Agent
9: Principal's Liability for the Torts of the Agent
10: Legal Relations between Agent and Third Party
11: Sub-agency
12: Termination of Agency
416 Pages, Paperback
