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“What they eye don’t see, the chef gets away with.”

---- Terry, the head cook at Fawlty Towers

So when your counterparty - a legal fiction, after all, a conceptualised bunch of papers filed at Companies House - signs your carefully crafted contract, it — for it is an it — signs through the agency of an individual: perhaps an employee, a director or someone operating under a power of attorney.

How can one be sure that a person who says they have such an authority really has it?

How indeed.

Possible agency scenarios

Here are the possible “undisclosed agency” scenarios at the time of contract:

See also