Bowstead & Reynolds On Agency 23rd ed with 2nd Supplement
ISBN13: 9780414124745
Published: October 2025
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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, published in December 2023, has now been updated with the 2nd Cumulative Supplement published in October 2025.
The 23rd edition was 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.
