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Classes of employment for the purpose of vicarious liability

Classes of persons for whose tort another person may be liable

Condition for establishing vicarious liability

Condition for establishing vicarious liability against a public official

Condition to be satisfied for an employer to be vicariously liable for the actions of its employee

Effect of failure to joint the tortfeasor in an action founded on vicarious liability

Extent to which an employer would be liable for the wrongful act of his employee

Facts that must be proved before an employer/master can be held vicariously liable for the actions of his employee/servant

Liability of an employer for torts committed by his employee

Meaning of vicarious liability

Requirements for establishing vicarious liability

Scope of the doctrine of vicarious liability

Tests for determining vicarious liability

The basis of the doctrine of vicarious liability

The principle of vicarious liability of a company for the acts of its staff explained

The principle that both the employer and the servant are joint tortfeasors

What a claimant relying on vicarious liability must prove to succeed

What it entails

What vicarious liability entails

When a tort is said to come within the course of a servant's employment

When an employer will be vicariously liable for the negligence of his servant

Whether a claimant is at liberty to sue either of the two joint tortfeasors their liability being joint and several

Whether a company can be charged to be vicariously liable for the acts of its agents or servants

Whether a corporation aggregate can be held liable for fraud committed by its servants or agents

Whether a corporation aggregate is liable to be sued for any tort

Whether a corporation can be held vicariously liable where the business carried out by the servant or agent is not one of the businesses it was incorporated to undertake under its Memorandum and Articles of Association

Whether a servant can be held liable for an act or omission of the master

Whether a servant who is the principal tortfeasor must be joined in the suit

Whether an employee is personally liable for the acts he performed on behalf of his employer within the scope of his authority

Whether an employer can be vicariously liable for an act committed by the employee which has been expressly forbidden

Whether an employer cannot be vicariously liable for the act of his employee where the employee is not joined in the action

Whether it is necessary to prove that there was an employer/employee relationship between the actual tortfeasor and the person sought to be made liable

Whether the government can be held liable in vicarious liability

Whether the issue of duty of care is apposite in considering the tort of vicarious liability

Whether the state, being immune from tortious liability, can be held vicariously liable for the tort of its servants

Whether vicarious liability can lie in crime

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