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Quincecare, agency and conflict of laws: what law do we look to?
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Much ink has been spilled on the Quincecare duty, considering the circumstances in which it may be engaged in the banker-customer relationship. However, that is only one part of a broader picture of inter-related agency relationships, all of which can be in play in cases where a company is being defrauded by someone who might usually be trusted to act in the company’s interests. This article sets out to identify, by means of a case study, what sort of issues might arise. It then seeks to explain what English conflict of laws rules would find to be the governing law of the various claims.
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