Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2020] UKSC 12
Year2020
CourtSupreme Court

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32 cases
  • Isma Ali v Luton Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 27 January 2022
    ...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 ......
  • TVZ v Manchester City Football Club Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 10 January 2022
    ...[2017] UKSC 60 [2018] AC 355, Barclays Bank plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 [2020] AC 973 and Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 [2020] AC 989 (“ Morrison 2”). These, and other important authorities, were all recently considered by the Court of Appeal in ......
  • JXJ v The Province of Great Britain of the Institute of Brothers of the Christian Schools (“the de la Salle Brothers”)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 17 July 2020
    ...handed down on 1 April 2020: Various Claimants v Barclays Bank [2020] UKSC 13, [2020] 2 WLR 960 and William Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12, [2020] ICR 874. In the Barclays case, at [1], Lady Hale (with whom the other members of the Court agreed) said this: “Two......
  • Dr Theodore Piepenbrock v London School of Economics and Political Science
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 30 September 2022
    ...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 acted for personal motives o......
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3 firm's commentaries
  • Employment Flash - July 2020
    • United States
    • JD Supra United States
    • 20 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......
  • BXB: Vicarious Liability, Sexual Abuse And The Canadian Perspective
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 5 May 2023
    ...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......
  • Vicarious Liability ' Where Are We Now?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 23 October 2023
    ...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 ......
1 books & journal articles
  • UNCERTAINTY IN PRIVATE LAW: RHETORICAL DEVICE OR SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL ARGUMENT?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 1, August 2021
    • 1 August 2021
    ...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......