A pause in the expansion of vicarious liability

The doctrine of vicarious liability has undergone dramatic development in recent times and has been extended to scenarios quite different from that of employer-employee. The question is: will vicarious liability be applied to a situation where the tortfeasor is an independent contractor? The UKSC su...

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Main Authors: LOW, Kee Yang, LAI, Siang Ping
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-59942023-01-20T03:23:25Z A pause in the expansion of vicarious liability LOW, Kee Yang LAI, Siang Ping The doctrine of vicarious liability has undergone dramatic development in recent times and has been extended to scenarios quite different from that of employer-employee. The question is: will vicarious liability be applied to a situation where the tortfeasor is an independent contractor? The UKSC supplied the answer in Barclays Bank v Various Claimants. This article considers the implications of this landmark decision. 2020-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4036 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5994/viewcontent/PauseExpVicariousLiability_2020_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Independent business independent contractor sexual assault vicarious liability Business Organizations Law Sexuality and the Law
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independent contractor
sexual assault
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Business Organizations Law
Sexuality and the Law
LOW, Kee Yang
LAI, Siang Ping
A pause in the expansion of vicarious liability
description The doctrine of vicarious liability has undergone dramatic development in recent times and has been extended to scenarios quite different from that of employer-employee. The question is: will vicarious liability be applied to a situation where the tortfeasor is an independent contractor? The UKSC supplied the answer in Barclays Bank v Various Claimants. This article considers the implications of this landmark decision.
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author LOW, Kee Yang
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title A pause in the expansion of vicarious liability
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title_full_unstemmed A pause in the expansion of vicarious liability
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4036
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