Vicarious Liability: Critique and Reform By Gray, Anthony (Hardback)

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Comparative law

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Wordery

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Bloomsbury publishing (uk)

Vicarious Liability: Critique and Reform : Hart Publishing : 9781509920235 : 1509920234 : 20 Sep 2018 : The scope of vicarious liability has significantly expanded since its original conception. Today employers are being found liable for actions of employees that they did not authorise, and never would have authorised if asked. They are being held liable for an employee's criminal activity. In the related strict liability field of non-delegable duties, they are being held liable for wrongdoing of independent contractors. Notions of strict liability have grown increasingly isolated in the law of tort, given the exponential growth in the tort of negligence. They require intellectual justification. Such a justification has proven to be elusive and largely unsatisfactory in relation to vicarious liability and to concepts of non-delegable duty. The law of three jurisdictions studied has now apparently embraced the 'enterprise risk' theory to rationalise the imposition of vicarious liabilit

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