Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets plc [2016] UKSC 11 – Law Journals

Legal news: Employment update

Catherine Turner rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘Employers should not view data protection as a barrier to sharing information with authorities for public health purposes or with the police if necessary and proportionate.’ Furlough scheme extended to 31 October 2020 On 12 May 2020, the government extended the …

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Vicarious liability: Planning an office party? Read this first.

Matthew White looks at the risks for employers in light of the decision in Shelbourne v Cancer Research ‘For an employer to be vicariously liable for a wrong it will not suffice for a claimant merely to show some connection between the wrongdoer/wrong and work or the workplace, no matter how tenuous.’ In Shelbourne v …

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Legal news: Employment update

Gwynneth Tan and Antonia Blackwell round up the latest case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘The school dismissed Mr Aplin on notice on the basis that his position was untenable. After an appeal during which he again did not have access to all the evidence on which the appeal panel had relied, …

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Vicarious liability: Moving with the times

Andrew Sugarman and Megan Crowther consider the extent of employers’ liability for personal injury in this rapidly changing area ‘Employers need to realise that their responsibilities are probably wider than was previously thought, with vicarious liability for the wrongs of others stretching beyond the classic master/servant relationship and stretching into conduct that might not previously …

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Sports injuries: Dangerous games

Jonathan Bellamy explores the issues that arise in the growth area of professional sport claims ‘As the incidence and value of sports injury claims have increased, so insurers have responded by tailoring their policies to exclude or limit the level of indemnity for personal injury claims between contestants.’ During the last 20 years there has …

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Data protection: Leak liability

Miriam Everett, Julian Copeman, Christine Young, Andrew Moir, Greig Anderson and Lucy McAlister consider a recent Court of Appeal judgment ‘An organisation can be liable for data breaches even if it has taken appropriate measures to comply with the data protection legislation.’ In WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2018], the Court of Appeal …

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Vicarious liability: You can’t bank on it

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Kate Raybould has some bad news for employers ‘The bank’s key contention was that the status of independent contractor afforded a defence to vicarious liability and recent case law developments had not changed that position.’ The parameters of vicarious liability have been under siege recently, with a raft of decisions expanding the limits of the …

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