Vicarious Liability Flashcards
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Q: What is vicarious liability?
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When one person is held legally responsible for the actions of another. Quite common in civil law, rather than criminal.
Most frequent occasions are cases where a statutory duty is breached by employees in the course of their employment (National Rivers 1994), or where a duty is placed upon a particular individual, such as a licensee, who delegates some of his/her functions to another.
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What is the purpose between vicarious liability?
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Purpose behind this concept is generally to prevent individuals or organisations from evading liability by getting others to carry out unlawful activities on their behalf.
