1. Before recently probing the matter directly and formulating the within analysis, I had assumed the validity of the agency characterisation and had utilised it periodically in earlier work. The substance of that earlier work is not altered by this analysis.
2. Derek French, Stephen Mayson and Christopher Ryan,Mayson, French and Ryan on Company Law(Oxford University Press, 29th edn 2012–13) 459; Simon Mortimore (ed),Company Directors(Oxford University Press, 2010) 195; Paul Redmond,Company and Securities Law(Law Book Co, 2nd edn 1992) 277.