Catholic Child Welfare Society v Various Claimants [2012] UKSC 56

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 …

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Vicarious Liability: Is the connection close enough?

Jonathan Wheeler reviews the case law in the last 12 months A set of recent cases from 2012 have been concerned with establishing whether there is a relationship giving rise to vicarious liability on the part of the defendant at all. Vicarious liability is a doctrine of strict liability on the part of a defendant …

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