Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Neutral Citation | [2020] UKSC 12 |
| Year | 2020 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
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30 cases
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Isma Ali v Luton Borough Council
...or indeed information relating to them. I do not consider that this factor assists the Claimant. CONCLUSIONVarious Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc [2020] AC 989, and in particular the test reiterated by Lord Reed PSC at [25]: “… in a case concerned with vicarious liability arising ......
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X Against Y And Others
...the pursuer’s averments did not set out a sufficient closeness of connection: Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc [2020] AC 989, Lord Reed at [23]. The mere fact that employment gave the person the opportunity to commit the wrongful act would not in and of itself suffice for im......
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X v Y
...and anr[2013] 2 AC 1, Brayshaw v Partners of Apsley Surgery[2019] 2 All ER 997 and Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants[2020] AC 989considered and Mohamud v Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc[2016] AC 667followed. Cases referred to: Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council [2017] UKSC 6......
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Dr Theodore Piepenbrock v London School of Economics and Political Science
...and properly be regarded as having been done by that employee while acting in the ordinary course of their employment: Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc [2020] UKSC 12, [2020] AC 989 at paras 23 – 24. The pleaded case against D6 as the alleged anonymous source is that she a......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Employment Flash - July 2020
...Spotlight The United Kingdom Confirming the Limits of Employer Vicarious Liability The UK Supreme Court ruled in WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 that a large supermarket chain cannot be held vicariously liable for the wrongful acts of an employee who publishe......
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BXB: Vicarious Liability, Sexual Abuse And The Canadian Perspective
...clarity in future cases. Stage 2 Stage 2 was the main battleground for argument in BXB. In Various Claimants v Morrison Supermarkets (2020) AC 989, Supreme Court held that the correct modern formulation of the test at stage 2 was that: "the wrongful conduct must be so closely connected with......
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Vicarious Liability ' Where Are We Now?
...Whether the principles of vicarious liability will flood the Supreme Court's defences in the future remains to be seen. Footnotes 1. [2020] UKSC 12 2. [2020] UKSC 13 3. [2023] UKSC 15 4. [2023] EWCA Civ 996 5. This puts the decision of Globe J in A v Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and ......
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UNCERTAINTY IN PRIVATE LAW: RHETORICAL DEVICE OR SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL ARGUMENT?
...regarded as done by the employee while acting in the ordinary course of his employment. Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarketsplc [2020] AC 989, 1016 [25] (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lords Kerr and Lloyd-Jones JJSC and Baroness Hale agreeing) ('Various Claimants'). See also at 10......