In the UK under the companies act 1985,?

Question

When an employee is carrying out their duties and in doing so enters the company (supplier) into a contract with a customer to provide a product, and that employee is aged 17. Is the employee classed as a minor so the contract doesn't stand? Or is the employee merely classed as working for the company and in doing so has entered the company into a valid contract?

Answer 1

The young employee is an authorised agent acting for a person of full contactual ability (The Company is a person by a legal fiction) . On the face of things I don't think you can wriggle out of the contract.