Oliveri Legal Pty Ltd t/as Oliveri Lawyers v Cassegrain Tea Tree Oil Pty Ltd

• 1. Corporations
  2. › Directors and officers
  3. › Authority of directors
  4. › Ostensible authority
  5. › Whether company held out managing director as having authority to bind it to indemnity
  6. › Whether nature of indemnity was outside normal course of company's activities
• 1. Corporations
  2. › Directors and officers
  3. › Authority of directors
  4. › Actual authority
  5. › Whether managing director had actual authority as alter ego of company
  6. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 128, 129
• 1. Guarantee and Indemnity
  2. › Contract of guarantee and indemnity
  3. › Construction
  4. › Whether agreement was guarantee and indemnity or only indemnity
  5. › Distinction between primary and secondary obligations
• 1. Estoppel
  2. › Estoppel by convention
  3. › Promissory estoppel
  4. › Whether parties held mutual assumption that company would indemnify solicitors
  5. › Whether conversations gave rise to estoppel expanding scope of agreement

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