Employers' and Vicarious Liability

Question 1

Case setting out the fourfold duty of care owed by employers to employees

Answer 1

Wilsons & Clyde Coal Ltd v English (1937)

Question 2

Case on safe system of work

Answer 2

Pape v Cumbria CC (1992)

Question 3

Case on safe place of work

Answer 3

Latimer v AEC (1953)

Question 4

Case on competent employees

Answer 4

Hudson v Ridge Manufacturing (1957)

Smith v Crossley Bros (1951)

Question 5

Guidelines for deciding if someone is an employee

Answer 5

Ready Mixed Concrete v Minister of Pensions (1968)

Question 6

Guidelines on relationships akin to employment

Answer 6

Cox v MoD (2016)
The Catholic Child Welfare Society v Various Claimants (2012)

Se also Barclays Bank v Various Claimants (2020)

Question 7

Case on course of employment and close connection test

Answer 7

Lister v Hesley Hall (2001)

Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets (2016)

Question 8

Employees on loan / paid by agencies

Answer 8

Hawley v Luminar Leisure (2006)