• Chapter 1: new material on nature of agency; amendment of material on application of agency law to companies with breaking up of material into separate paragraphs accordingly;
• Chapter 2: new material on capacity and authority of agent to contract with self on behalf of principal; revision of material on the relevancy of illegality to agency;
• Chapter 3: considerable new material, including on the nature of actual authority and the effect of dishonesty in an agent; the power of a principal to continue to act despite appointing an agent;
• Chapter 5: some elaboration of points arising with sub-agents.
• Chapter 6: recasting of material on agent’s duties to comply with mandate and instructions; effect of illegality as between principal and agent; new material on disclosure and consent in relation to conflicts of interest; new material on circumstances in which an agent holds property on trust for the principal; rewriting of material on compensation for breach of duty; new material on fiduciaries’ positive equitable duties; new material on self-dealing and fair-dealing; new material on duties owed to separate principals;
• Chapter 7: new material on uncertainty in agents’ remuneration entitlements; forfeiture of remuneration; commissions on renewal; rights to indemnity; rights of attorney to remuneration;
• Chapter 8: new material on apparent authority; imputation of an agent’s knowledge
• Chapter 9: new material on agents’ liability for breach of warranty of authority
• Chapter 10: new material on power of principal to terminate agent’s authority.

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• Nature of the subject;
  
• Creation of agency;
  
• Authority of agents;
  
• Agency of necessity;
  
• Sub-agency;
  
• Duties of agents towards their principals;
  
• Rights of agents against their principals;
  
• Relations between principals and third parties;
  
• Relations between agents and third parties;
  
• Termination of authority;
  
• Commercial agents;
  
• A note on the conflict of laws;
  
• Appendix 1 – Commercial Agents Regulations, 1993

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