“The law of vicarious liability is on the move” proclaimed Lord Phillips in the last judgment he delivered as President of the Supreme Court: Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society [2012] ...

“The law of vicarious liability is on the move” proclaimed Lord Phillips in the last judgment he delivered as President of the Supreme Court: Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society [2012] ...

In Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council [2017] UKSC 60, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Court of Appeal ([2015] EWCA Civ 1139) and decided that a local authority could be ...

The local authority had accepted that it was vicariously liable for the teacher’s assaults between 1980 and 1982 but ... vicarious liability and causation. Malcolm Johnson. In relation to ...

Vicarious liability, or imputed liability, is a legal rule that holds a person or company responsible for actions committed by others or by their employees. ... Government agencies, ...

Vicarious liability is a type of liability that arises when one party holds some responsibility for the unlawful or reckless actions of another. Learn how it works.

Is the phrase “vicarious liability” foreign to you? If you are an ambulatory surgery center administrator, it shouldn’t be. Generally, people are familiar with the concept of direct liability. It ...

Vicarious and contributory liability are terms well-known to every tort lawyer and law student. They should also be familiar to business owners and managers. The legal theories of vicarious and ...

Vicarious liability will attach to an owner of a motor vehicle for the actions of the driver of that motor vehicle if, whilst driving the vehicle the driver causes harm to another.

Anita Bernstein and Lauren Boulbol of Brooklyn Law School writes: Violating New York Judiciary Law §487 can be memorably costly for an errant attorney, but successful plaintiffs may have to worry ...