Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Midterm:
Trespass to the person
Vicarious Liability
Passing of
Defenses to negligence
Deceit
Control Test Employee may bind his employer for any acts or
omissions of his in relation to tort if he is under the control of his
employer. In highly specialized workforces there are exceptions.
Connoway v Judge and co limo driver gave a lift to a person that was
outside the scope of his employee responsibilities for the day. The
employer equipped his property with so many warning signs and
exclusionary statements about this that it impossible to impose
vicarious liability.
Where deliberate assaults are involved, the courts usually wont impose
vicarious liable for assaults.
Listen v hasleyhall school full of boys, one of the elders of the school
molested many of the kids. The school was held vicariously liable.
very important case (the bouncer case was based of of this)