Court: Court of Appeal

Year: 1973

Principle(s): Ostensible authority: The respondent company, by their conduct of holding out Attoh Quarshie as a director with an unqualified authority to act on their behalf, were therefore estopped from denying him as their agent and representative

Court: Court

Year: 1982-83

Principle(s): Real or ostensible authority determinable as a matter of fact; Claimant must prove that there was ostensible authority

Court: Court

Year: 1988

Principle(s): Apparent or ostensible authority; Principal liable for acts of agent whose authority is ostensible

Court: Court

Year: 1963

Principle(s): Apparent authority: a legal relationship between the principal and the contractor created by a representation, made by the principal to the third party, intended to be and in fact acted on by the third party, that the agent has authority to enter on behalf of the principal into the contract of a kind within the scope of the apparent authority, so as to render the principal liable to perform any obligations imposed upon him by such contract.