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Frederick & Others v Positive Solutions Limited – a win for principals on vicarious liability
The Court of Appeal has reinforced the idea that liability will only attach to a principal in cases where a tort committed by an agent can be shown to have been completed as an integral part of the business activities of the principal. Furthermore, all elements composing the tort must take place within the course of the agency. The case thickens the lines defining what conduct of an agent could lead to recovery from the principal.
Read moreFrederick & Others v Positive Solutions Limited – a win for principals on vicarious liability
The Court of Appeal has reinforced the idea that liability will only attach to a principal in cases where a tort committed by an agent can be shown to have been completed as an integral part of the business activities of the principal. Furthermore, all elements composing the tort must take place within the course of the agency. The case thickens the lines defining what conduct of an agent could lead to recovery from the principal.
Read moreWho is going to pay? FCA launches consultation on the funding of the FSCS
The FCA's consultation follows on from FAMR and focuses on how the FSCS should be funded going forward.
Read moreHave the pension reforms lived up to eggs-pectations?
It was widely reported that this Easter anyone over the age of 55 would be considering their nest eggs, rather than chocolate ones, in the wake of the new pension reforms which came into force on Monday.
Read moreHas the FOS decided Lehman's collapse was not foreseeable; or is that too remote a hope?
Nearly six years have elapsed since we first saw the iconic photographs of Lehman Brothers' employees filing out of the former bank's worldwide headquarters, carrying their belongings in cardboard boxes.
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