Employment Notes

UK: both seconding and host companies may be vicariously liable for seconded employees' tortious acts

UK: no vicarious liability for prank gone wrong

UK: developments affecting employee data - transatlantic transfers and class actions

UK: no vicarious liability for actions of genuinely self-employed contractor

UK: Supreme Court rules that Morrisons not vicariously liable for 'rogue' employee's data breach

Game changer for cyber/data breach cases opens in Supreme Court: WM Morrisons Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants

Middle East: The new DIFC Employment Law – 16 key changes

UK: risk assessments and vicarious liability for personal injury suffered at work parties

UK: Court of Appeal upholds employer vicarious liability for employee data breach and serious assault

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court decision in Morrisons Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants that an employer can be vicariously liable …

UK: Supreme Court confirms employers do not owe duty of care to employees in relation to conduct of the litigation

The Supreme Court has overturned the Court of Appeal ruling (discussed here) and held that, where an employer is sued on the basis that it is vicariously …

UK: Medical assessments - employers should review their arrangements to minimise risk of vicarious liability

A High Court has held in Various claimants v Barclays Bank an employer vicariously liable for the acts (in this case, alleged sexual assaults) of a …

UK: Vicarious liability claims - employers may owe duty of care to employees in the conduct of the defence

The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employer (or, in this case, a quasi-employer, in the form of a Police Commissioner) being sued for vicarious …