Tests for vicarious liabilityTort lawA INTRODUCTION The recent escalation in sexual torts litigation in Canada has yielded two lines of legal authority of importance to religious and other not-for-profit organizations implicated when an employee or volunteer is found liable for the sexual or physical...
Related to vicarious liability: Volenti non fit injuriaVicarious Liability The tort doctrine that imposes responsibility upon one person for the failure of another, with whom the person has a special relationship (such as Parent and Child, employer and employee, or owner of vehicle and driver), ...
vicarious liability seeTORT. Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson The legal principle that persons who are in a position to control the actions of another will be held liable for any injuries caused...
vicarious liabilitylawsufficient connectiontestemploymentriskdefendantstortunemployedsexual tortThe author reviews the generally accepted rationales for vicarious liability. The author will then argue that the test for sufficient connection that best achi
Vicarious liability is based not on a breach of any personal duty owed by the master, but on imputability of the servant's tort 替代责任不是基于雇主自身的任何个人责任,而是基于雇员侵权的可归责性。 MultiUn Furthermore, the provision was not concerned with the carrier's own employees but ...
common law,e.g.vicariousliability, agency and the tort of negligence, are not changed. legco.gov.hk legco.gov.hk 諸如轉承責任、代理及疏忽的 侵權行為等的普通法規則,均沒有改變。 legco.gov.hk legco.gov.hk (c) No other changes of law affecting a ...
Note that while that case involved determination of employment relationship for tax purposes,[13] similar principles would apply to tort and liability issues. Another application: The Valles case InValles v. Albert Einstein Medical Center,the Superior Court of Pennsylvania highlighted the critical elemen...
In this article, the author examines from a comparative perspective the nature of vicarious liability in tort (or liability for the acts of others, to use civilian terminology). She notes a common legal framework, crossing common and civil law boundaries, and focuses on three key questions in ...
REFORMULATING VICARIOUS LIABILITY IN TERMS OF BASIC TORT DOCTRINE: THE EXAMPLE OF EMPLOYER LIABILITY FOR SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN THE WORKPLACE New York University Law ReviewGEISTFELD, MARK A.
tort lawvicarious liabilityThe Botswana legal system, like most legal systems in the world, recognises some form of governmental liability for the wrongs committed by public officials. The general tendency has been to limit such liability to wrongs committed by officials in the course of and within...