Before the auction, the estate agents had signed a contract to sell the house to the claimant. The Society, as mortgagees, said that the agents did not have authority to bind it, and that the contract did not sufficiently identify the property so as to constitute a memorandum of the sale under the 1989 Act, … Continue reading Rudra v National and Provincial Building Society; Stickley and Kent (Risk Management Unit) Ltd: CA 22 Aug 1997