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Foundations of Business Law Assignment -

Assignment question - Anne was Relationships Manager (Queensland) for Wexis book publishers who were considering opening a branch office in Central Queensland. Anne was instructed to visit the area, make enquiries and report back to head office with a recommendation. When Anne arrived in Rockhampton, she was so impressed with its potential that she took action to set up an office before receiving further instructions from head office. On behalf of Wexis, she leased suitable premises, purchased office equipment, placed advertisements in the local newspaper and purchased a small sailing boat which she intended to use for entertaining clients of the firm. In each case she arranged for the accounts to be forwarded to head office.

(a) Wexis though decided not to establish a branch office in Rockhampton but then begin to receive accounts for the unauthorised purchases. Is either Wexis or Anne liable to pay these accounts? Why or why not?

(b) Assume for the purposes of this part of the question that, contrary to the above, Wexis did decide it wanted to open a branch office in Rockhampton but that Anne had not indicated at the time of leasing the premises that she was acting as an agent. Could Wexis enforce the lease of the property in its own right if the lessor (the owner of the property) were to refuse to comply with the lease?

You should answer these questions by reference to agency law principles only and without reference to eg The Property Law Act 1969 (WA). Be sure to fully explain your reasoning, citing case authority where relevant.

Referencing your assignment - You can use either AGLC 4, Chicago or APA referencing in your assignment. If you use Chicago or APA referencing please note the advice below on how to cite cases.

Cases decided by courts and tribunals have a name, a year of decision, report title, report volume, and report page number. All of these details should be included in the first citation of the case. E.g. Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling (1986) 95 CLR 523. After that the case can be referred by name only. Where you have found out the details of the case from a summary or other source and not from the case report itself, your sentence should conclude with that source. E.g. In Stevens v Brodribb ... (van der Waarden 2010, p18). Note, this example is appropriate for Chicago style referencing; the reference will be denoted differently depending on the reference style.