Agency — Philanthropic society — Liability of members of committee for overdraft on banker — Authority unrevoked.

Agency — Compromise of action — Authority of Counsel — Ostensible authority — Client bound by settlement.

Insurance — Motor Vehicle — Claim against owner — Compromise by insurer — Claim not covered by policy — Estoppel — Insurer bound to indemnify owner — Motor Car (Third Party Insurance) Act, 1939 (No. 4688), secs. 10 (2), 19.

Companies - Stock Exchange - Offer to sell securities on floor of exchange - Dispute as to identify of acceptor - Whether contract concluded - Whether contractual rights derived prior to resolution of dispute by committee of exchange.

Agency - Stock broker - Implied term in agency contract - Principal bound by Rules of Exchange - Broker authorized to contract in accordance with Rules of Exchange.

Agency - Auction and auctioneer - Receiving sheep - Selling sheep - Passing over proceeds of sale - Auction Sales Act 1958 (No. 6202), s38.

Statutory interpretation - "Person" - "Auctioneer" - Whether includes corporation.

Agency - Estate agent - Commission - Entitlement to commission accruing upon execution of legally binding contract of sale - Contract executed - Contract subject to condition subsequent - Whether agent's entitlement to commission accrued upon execution of contract or upon satisfaction of condition.

Contracts - Parties - Identification - Objective theory of contract - Parties' conduct - Evidence - Admissibility - Distinction between relevance of conduct to identification issue and to interpretation of contract - Post-contractual conduct - Contracting parties' tax returns - Deductions.

Agency - Partnership - Authority - Ostensible - Actual - Partnership business dealing in goods - Business name - Contracts for agricultural investment - Use of business name - Ratification.

Negligence - Solicitors - Executrix - Advice relating to proposed application for probate - Duty to warn client of risk - Testamentary trust of estate's interest in partnership - Personal liability for debts of partnership business - Failure to advise - Causation - Wrongs Act 1958 (No 6420) ss 51 52

Agency — Manager of partnership of group of companies — Administrators appointed to partners and manager — Whether manager as agent held assets on trust for partnership — Nature of any trust — Agent’s right of indemnity — Whether agent held possessory lien over partnership assets in its possession — Whether possessory lien lost by administrators’ later sale of assets — Whether possessory lien extended to sale moneys deposited in bank account later established by administrators — Whether leases entered into by sub-agent of the agent were partnership assets held on trust for partnership