The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a trial judge’s refusal to hold a hospital’s successor vicariously liable for a doctor ...

Key Principles Vicarious Liability: Public corporations are vicariously liable for torts committed by their employees in the course of employment, mirroring the principle applied to private employers.

The Supreme Court applied Articles 2176 and 2180 of the Civil Code as basis for the principal’s liability as teacher-in-charge. These embody the concept of vicarious liability or imputed negligence ...

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 ...

In their premise, cyber torts are the same as any tort committed offline, in that it requires the breach of an existing duty of care which causes harm to another. What makes it a cyber tort is that ...

Vicarious liability and strict liability are both different from standard tort claims. In a typical tort case, a plaintiff must prove certain things in order to be entitled to compensation.

To summarize, tortious liability arises from a breach of a legal obligation, and one type of it is vicarious liability, which allows one person to be held liable for the torts committed by another if ...

Purpose of tort law The primary purpose of tort law is to remedy the wrong done by the offender. Because we cannot bring back the previous situation of the injured party before the injury, the most ...

And the phrase “vicarious liability” is defined as “the liability which arises because of one person’s relationship to another”. Thus, for example, an employer is generally liable for the tort of his ...

The next issue was the stage one test for vicarious liability – namely whether the trial judge was wrong to find that the relationship between the school and PXM was not akin to employment.