Agency: Law and Principles, Fifth Edition by Roderick Munday | 2025*

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Agency: Law and Principles, Fifth Edition by Roderick Munday | 2025*

Author	Roderick Munday
Publication Date	Dec 2025
ISBN	9780198969730
Format	Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher	Oxford

Blends in-depth, academically rigorous analysis with a practical perspective suited to contemporary commercial settings.
Provides a clear and succinct explanation of the core principles of agency law.
Serves as an indispensable resource on agency law for both commercial law practitioners and students.

What’s new in this edition:

Examines how algorithmic agreements influence the concept of agency and agency relationships
Introduces a new section addressing agency and attribution within company law
Explores the High Court of Australia’s decision in Bird v DP (2024) 98 ALJR 1349, rejecting the UK Supreme Court’s expansion of vicarious liability to relationships “akin to employment”
Reviews the Supreme Court’s analysis of fiduciary duties and the obligation to account in Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025] 2 WLR 529

Issues of agency frequently arise in commercial legal practice. Now in its fifth edition, Agency: Law and Principles addresses these issues by providing a clear and accessible explanation of the foundations of agency law and the concept of agency itself. It combines detailed analysis of the latest case law with a practical perspective that reflects contemporary commercial realities, examining how agency principles apply across different categories of agents in key commercial sectors. Topics covered include actual and apparent authority, agency of necessity, sub-agency, termination of agency, lack of authority and ratification, as well as the legal relationships between principal and agent and between agent and third parties.

This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate important recent case law and legislation, including Supreme Court decisions such as Barton v Morris [2023] AC 684, Philipp v Barclays Bank UK Plc [2024] AC 346, and Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025] 2 WLR 529. It also introduces a new section on agency and attribution within company law. In light of the growing use of algorithmic agreements on digital platforms, the book also considers how agency law applies in this evolving context.

Clear, authoritative, and concise, this work is an essential resource for all commercial lawyers.

Table of Contents of Agency: Law and Principles, Fifth Edition

1:The Nature of Agency
2:Creation of Agency
3:The Actual Authority of the Agent
4:Apparent Authority
5:Authority Deriving from Agency of Necessity
6:Ratification
7:The Agent's Liability for Breach of Warranty of Authority
8:Legal Relations Between Principal and Agent: Duties the Agent Owes to his Principal
9:Legal Relations Between Principal and Agent: Rights of the Agent Against the Principal
10:Legal Relations Between Principal and Agent
11:The Tortious Liabilities of Principal and Agent
12:Legal Relations Between Agent and Third Party
13:Termination of Agency

About The Author

Roderick Munday is a Reader Emeritus in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow Emeritus of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He studied law at Cambridge and began a PhD before taking a teaching position at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), where he later became a Visiting Professor.

After returning to Cambridge, he held a Research Fellowship at St Catharine’s College and then became an Official Fellow at Peterhouse. He is also a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn.

He has written and contributed to several major legal texts, including Evidence (2022), Cross and Tapper on Evidence (2018), Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (2011), and Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (2020). He also served for many years as editor-in-chief of the Justice of the Peace law reports.