Dear Colleagues:

Those of you interested in agency law will find ODG member Peter Watt's

note in (2007) 123 LQR 519 interesting. In the note, he takes issue with

Lord Hoffmann's assertion in /OBG v Allan/ that there in no tort "by

which a purported agent can be strictly liable for causing the principal

loss by making him liable, by virtue of ostensible authority, under a

disadvantageous contract. for an agent to his principal." Instead he

argues that there is and can be liability in tort for the agent to the

principal.

Happy Reading,

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Jason Neyers

Associate Professor of Law &

Cassels Brock LLP Faculty Fellow in Contract Law

Faculty of Law

University of Western Ontario

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