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Vicarious Liability - From: 1970 To: 1979
This page lists 8 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Launchbury v Morgans; CA 1971 - [1971] 2 QB 245
Heaton's Transport (St Helen's) Ltd v Transport and General Workers' Union; HL 1972 - [1973] AC 15; [1972] IRLR 25; [1972] 3 All ER 101
Launchbury v Morgans; HL 9-May-1972 - [1973] AC 127; [1972] UKHL 5
Iqbal v London Transport Executive [1973] EWCA Civ 3; Times, 06 June 1973; (1973) 16 KIR 329
6 Jun 1973
CA
Vicarious Liability
The court was asked whether the London Transport Executive was liable for the action of a bus conductor in driving contrary to his express instructions a motor bus a short distance in a garage. Held: The instruction acted as a prohibition which defined the sphere of the bus conductor's employment.
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Ross Hillman v Bond [1974] QB 435
1974
Road Traffic, Vicarious Liability
An employer can be found to be causing or permitting an employee to overload a vehicle when he was acting in the course of his employment even though the employer is unaware of the employee's exact activities.
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Keppel Bus Co v Ahmad [1974] 1 WLR 1082; [1974] UKPC 15; [1974] UKPC 2; [1974] RTR 504; [1974] 2 All ER 700; 17 KIR 90
20 May 1974
Vicarious Liability, Commonwealth
Singapore - The respondent, the plaintiff was a passenger in a bus belonging to the appellants. They employed as conductor of the bus the second defendant. In the course of his journey the respondent was assaulted by the conductor. He brought an action claiming damages against both the conductor and also the appellants, as vicariously liable for the wrong committed by their servant.
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Rose v Plenty; CA 7-Jul-1975 - [1976] 1 WLR 141; [1975] EWCA Civ 5; [1976] 1 All ER 97; [1975] ICR 430
Port Swettenham Authority v T W Wu and Co (M) Sdn Bhd [1979] AC 580; [1978] UKPC 13
19 Jun 1978
PC
Vicarious Liability, Agency
A gratuitous bailee assumes a duty to take reasonable care of the chattel: "This standard, although high, may be a less exacting standard than that which the common law requires of a bailee for reward [but] the line between the two standards is a very fine line, difficult to discern and impossible to define."
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