Category Archives: vicarious liability

Employer’s liability for assault following a Christmas party?

insolvency, insurance, vicarious liabilityBy Martin Malone December 5, 2016

It is widely reported every year that employment law rights and Christmas parties often collide in a frequently drunken sequence of events that ends up either in an employment tribunal, with a large compensation payment by the employer, or both. This time last year I wrote about a reported decline in “risky” office parties and,…

vicarious liability extended to non-employees

employment status, vicarious liabilityBy Martin Malone December 8, 2011

Sometimes respondents in employment cases raise arguments in their defence which, although perfectly arguable in law, do not reflect particularly well on them. One of these is the defence, in a discrimination claim, that any other employee would have been treated just as badly. JGE v (1) The English Province of Our Lady of Charity…