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Vicarious Liability: Overworked and under attack
Chris Gutteridge contemplates recent decisions of the Court of Appeal on an employer’s liability for injuries sustained by employees who are victims of violence while at work The trial judge was entitled to conclude that the failure to provide full-time guarding did not amount to a failure to take reasonable care for the safety of …
Cases Referenced
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- Dubai Aluminium Co Ltd v Salaam [2002] UKHL 48; [2003] WTLR 163
- Lister v Hesley Hall Ltd [2001] UKHL 22
- Mitchell v United Co-Operatives Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 348
- Weddall v Barchester Healthcare Ltd; Wallbank v Wallbank Fox Designs Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 25