Vicarious liability, non-delegable duty and the Ng Huat Seng decision

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Low, Kee Yang
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• الموضوعات: Tort of negligence; non-delegable duty; vicarious liability; Singapore; Asian Studies; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration; Torts
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3289; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5247/viewcontent/FEATURE.pdf

In recent times, courts in Singapore and elsewhere have been grappling with the issue of delegability of duty of care. In the process, they have vigorously defended the conventional position that a duty of care is, in general, delegable. Accordingly, attempts at broadening the ambit of vicarious lia...