Employers Liability in UK Law
- THE EMPLOYMENT AND SAFETY EFFECTS OF EMPLOYERS‘ LIABILITY*
- Employers' Liability at Common Law: Two Competing Paradigms
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Not what to wear? Employers’ liability for dress codes?
This article argues that in the United Kingdom currently there is a lack of an effective legal basis for challenging the imposition by employers of unfair or discriminatory dress codes in the workp...
- The Last Bastion Of Fault? Contributory Negligence In Actions For Employers' Liability
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Employers' Legal Liability for Sexual Harassment of Employees by Third Parties
The issue of whether or not an employer should be vicariously liable under statute for sexual harassment perpetrated against his employees by third parties is an important one that has been undecid...
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Discriminating Material? Legal Liability of Employers for Job Advertisements
It is increasingly being recognised that an impressive and relevant presentation of job advertisements, combined with their strategic placing in an appropriate medium is key to a successful recruit...
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Doubled indemnity: the costs of employers' liability insurance are spiralling in the UK as 'compensation culture' takes hold in this country. Well over 200,000 British firms are breaking the law because they can't afford the requisite cover. Cathy Hayward reports on how the government, businesses and the insurance industry are tackling the problem.
...After knocking back cocktails in a Soho bar for five hours, a twentysomething female professional wearing three-inch heels falls down the stairs on her way out and pulls a tendon in her ankle. Will she get a cab home, bandage up her foot and nurse he......
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Munchkins Restaurant Ltd and another v Karmazyn, liability of employers for long-term harassment
Harassment, even of a verbal nature, can pollute the working environment and can destroy the health, confidence and the self-esteem of the victim. Of course, it is up to the claimants in these verb...
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Unjust Enrichment in the ‘Fairchild Enclave’ International Energy Group Ltd v Zurich Insurance plc
In International Energy Group v Zurich Insurance, the Supreme Court considered the implications of the special rule in Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd for insurers’ for employers’ liabil...... ... Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd for insurers’ of employers’ liability ... The question for the Court was whether, in the light of its ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: Holmes‐Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski Governmental Liability. A Comparative Study. By H. Street, LL.M., PH.D. Administrat...... ... I;. GOVERNMENTAL LIABILITY. A COMPARATIVE STUDY. By H. STREET, LL.M., PH.D., Professor of ... F. A. MANN. EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY. Second Edition. By JOHN MUNKMAN, LL.B., of the ... ...
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