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Injury At Work: Old vicarious liability rekindled
Nathaniel Caiden summarises a case that brings attention back to the employer-employee relationship in liability claims ‘The fundamental question in whether to impose liability is whether the “wrongful act is sufficiently related to conduct authorized by the employer to justify the imposition of vicarious liability”.’ Recent case law on imposing vicarious liability seems to have …
Cases Referenced
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- Bazley v Curry [1999] 2 SCR 534
- Catholic Child Welfare Society v Various Claimants [2012] UKSC 56
- Cox v Ministry of Justice [2014] EWCA Civ 132; [2016] UKSC 10
- Graham v Commercial Bodyworks Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 47