Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2004] All ER (D) 352 (Mar)
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Peter Gibson, Tuckey LJJ and Sir Martin Nourse

Representation Fergus Randolph (instructed by Addleshaw Goddard, Manchester) for the claimants.
  Conor Quigley QC and Jasbir Dhillon (instructed by Bullivant Jones) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 18 March 2004

Catchwords

Agency - Agency agreement - Termination - Contract not renewed - Lapse of time - Definition of termination - Compensation - Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993, , reg 18(a).

The Case

Under reg18(a) of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993, an act of termination was required to terminate the contract of agency. The fact that an agency agreement had been allowed to come to an end by time, and had not been renewed, did not amount to termination.

Practice Areas

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