Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency: 2023 [paper]

Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency, 23rd Edition, Mainwork and supplement 2025

Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency is the essential reference source for commercial practitioners. Part of the long-established Common Law Library, this new edition updates all relevant aspects of law and how they relate to agency agreements, including contract law, administrative law, tort, commercial/company law, the law of property and the conflict of laws.

The 23rd edition has been fully updated to take account of all developments in agency, including new text on:

• implied limits to actual authority and onus of proof of authority;
• sub-agency, and agent’s rights to indemnity;
• vicarious liability;
• and undisclosed principals.

The text has been updated with all key cases, including:

• Wood v Commercial First Business Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 471 on bribes and secret commissions
• Law Debenture Trust Corp Plc v Ukraine [2023] UKSC 11 on capacity, actual and apparent authority
• Philipp v Barclays Bank UK Plc [2023] UKSC 25 on actual and apparent authority
• Barton v Morris [2023] UKSC 3 on scope of quantum meruit for services by agent
• Barclay-Watt v Alpha Panareti Public Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1169 on agent’s liability for misrepresentation and joint tortfeasance
• And new cases from Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand

The second cumulative supplement to the 23rd edition takes account of all developments in agency, including:

• Considerable revision to the material on fiduciary duty and on secret commissions in chapters 6 and 8
• New textual material on: delegation of authority; nature of a solicitor’s retainer; identity of parties to a contract and undisclosed principals.
• Three significant cases from the Supreme Court on aspects of breach of fiduciary duty: Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025] UKSC 10; Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd [2025] UKSC 28; and Hopcraft v Close Brothers Ltd [2025] UKSC 33. Privy Council case on exercise of powers for proper purposes: Tianrui (International) Holding Co Ltd v China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd [2024] UKPC 36.

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Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency, 23rd Edition, Mainwork and 2 supplement 2025,