Vicarious Liability in UK Law
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Vicarious liability + intentional acts: Fraud
The United Kingdom Supreme Court is to revisit vicarious liability issues, with a bench of seven. The hearing is set down for 13 & 14 February 2018: Frederick and others (Appellants) v Positive Sol...
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Vicarious Liability – When does it arise?
Two recent decisions of the UK Supreme Court have considered the doctrine of vicarious liability and effectively extended it to a wider range of circumstances. In the UK an employer can be held lia...
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Vicarious liability in the UK – who am I responsible for?
Back in the day, the concept of vicarious liability (that is the situation in which one party is held liable for the acts or omissions of another) was largely confined to the employer/employee rela...
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UKSC: Vicarious liability, akin to employment and independent contractors
Yesterday saw the UK Supreme Court hand down two significant tort law decisions. The first decision considered but rejected the vicarious liability of a bank for the acts of an independent contract...
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UKSC: Vicarious liability; within the scope of employment.
The second UK Supreme Court decision handed down this week on vicarious liability was that of WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12, available on the BAILII website. The ...
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Abuse: Vicarious liability and conduct of investigation claims (UK)
BXB v Watch Tower And Bible Tract Society of Pennsylvannia & Anor (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 156 (QB) (30 January 2020) (available on BAILII) applied English law to its consideration of vicarious liabilit...
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Abuse: Vicarious liability and conduct of investigation claims (UK)
BXB v Watch Tower And Bible Tract Society of Pennsylvannia & Anor (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 156 (QB) (30 January 2020) (available on BAILII) applied English law to its consideration of vicarious liabilit...
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No vicarious liability for fraudulent financial adviser using company online portal
No vicarious liability arises for a company where one of its agents perpetrates a fraud in the course of a recognisably independent business. This applies even where, to facilitate the fraud, the a...
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Vicarious Liability – the UK Supreme Court hands down two important decisions.
The Supreme Court has now delivered its judgements on two important cases involving the concept of vicarious liability. In both it has upheld the appeals holding that the employer was not vicarious...
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UK Supreme Court Clarifies Position on Vicarious Liability for Data Breaches
Judgment offers some comfort for data controllers, without eliminating the possibility of vicarious liability based on an employee’s actions. The UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has ruled that WM Morris...
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