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Vicarious Liability: Are We Moving Away From Lister v Hesley Hall Ltd [2002] 1 AC 215? - Sarah Prager, 1 Chancery Lane

14/11/12. The workplace can be a dangerous place. Sarah Prager discusses two recent Court of Appeal cases on vicarious liability, and examines how they have been applied in the County Court.  In January of this year the Court of Appeal heard the conjoined appeals in Weddall v Barchester Healthcare Limited and Wallbank v Wallbank Fox Designs Limited [2012] IRLR 307. Both involved interesting questions of vicarious liability for the deliberate acts of employees. In both cases employees had suffered injury in an employment setting as a result of violence by another employee. In each case, the judge at first instance had held that the tortfeasor...

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