Lonsdale v Howard & Hallam (House of Lords)
The case concerned an agent's right to "compensation" for termination of a commercial agency pursuant to Regulation 17(6) of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993. Lord Hoffmann, with whom all of the Law Lords agreed, considered that an agent is entitled to be compensated for being deprived of the benefit of the agency relationship. The valuation of that loss is to be reached by analysing what could reasonably have been obtained, at the date of termination, for the rights which the agent had been enjoying.
Philip Moser represented Lonsdale.
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