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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 …
Cases Referenced
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- Bernard v Attorney General of Jamaica [2004] UKPC 47
- Catholic Child Welfare Society v Various Claimants [2012] UKSC 56
- Dubai Aluminium Co Ltd v Salaam [2002] UKHL 48; [2003] WTLR 163
- EL v Children's Society [2012] EWHC 365 (QB)
- JGE v The Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust [2011] EWHC 2871 (QB); [2012] EWCA Civ 938
- Lister v Hesley Hall Ltd [2001] UKHL 22
- Maga v Trustees of Birmingham Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church [2010] EWCA Civ 256
- Mattis v Pollock [2002] EWHC 2177; [2003] EWCA Civ 887
- Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 1151
- Weddall v Barchester Healthcare Ltd; Wallbank v Wallbank Fox Designs Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 25
- XVW & YZA v Gravesend Grammar School for Girls & Adventure Life Signs Ltd [2012] EWHC 575 (QB)
- Y v London Borough of Wandsworth [2006] 1 WLR 2320