Course of Employment in UK Law

  • Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Diciembre 1985
    ... ... (1) The duty of an employee during the period of his employment to act with good faith towards his employer: this duty is sometimes called ... skill experience and knowledge which he has acquired in the course of previous periods of employment ... ...
  • Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Julio 2006
    ... ... A person must not pursue a course of conduct which amounts to harassment of another. A breach of this ... for harassment committed by an employee in the course of his employment ... 2 The harassment in this case concerns two employees of ... ...
  • Lister and Others v Hesley Hall Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Mayo 2001
    ... ... of his employer, the council, or an independent act outside the course of his employment? His position of caring for the plaintiff by sharing a ... ...
  • Mohamud v W M Morrison Supermarkets Plc
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 Marzo 2016
    ... ... whether there was sufficient connection between the wrongdoer's employment and his conduct towards the claimant to make the defendant legally ... time that a principal is answerable for the act of an agent in the course of his business, but it was argued in that case (despite the decision in ... ...
  • Armagas Ltd v Mundogas SA (The Ocean Frost)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Mayo 1986
    ... ... Furthermore, by this time Mr. Magelssen had left the employment of Mundogas. On 2 March Mundogas gave Mr. Johannssen notice of redelivery ... In the course of the trial before Staughton J., and in the light of the way in which the ... ...
  • Group Seven Ltd (a company incorporated under the laws of Malta) v Notable Services LLP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Abril 2019
    ... ... transaction, the nature and importance of his role, the ordinary course of business, the degree of doubt, the practicability of the trustee or the ... should be regarded as within the scope of the employee's employment and so that the employer should be held liable for it.” [537]. He went ... ...
  • Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Junio 2002
    ... ... breach of that duty in relation to C during the periods of C's employment by each of them with the result that during both periods C inhaled ... In the course of his work Mr Fairchild inhaled substantial quantities of asbestos dust ... ...
  • Shilton v Wilmshurst
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Febrero 1991
    ... ... "… shall be charged in respect of any office or employment on emoluments therefrom which fall under … Case I: where the ... Section 181 is not limited to emoluments provided in the course of employment; the section must therefore apply first to an emolument ... ...
  • White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Diciembre 1998
    ... ... that the plaintiff would be able to return to full-time employment, and he awarded damages of £162,153. The Court of Appeal allowed the ... case as employees is put thus: they were all at the ground in the course of their duty, as employees. The Chief Constable owed them a duty to take ... ...
  • Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd v Salaam
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Diciembre 2002
    ... ... 4 At various stages in the course of the trial all the defendants settled with Dubai Aluminium on agreeing ... for wrongful acts done by employees in the course of their employment. Like considerations apply to vicarious liability for employees ... 20 ... ...
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