Vicarious Liability in Tort: A Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780521763370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 280 str.

Paula Giliker

Opis

A detailed examination of the principle of vicarious liability in tort in both common and civil law legal systems.

Recenzje

'… offers a detailed comparative examination of the doctrine of vicarious liability … of interest to academic law libraries and could be of interest in any setting where a comparative approach to this area of law or quick access to key foreign jurisprudence and legislation on this doctrine would be useful.' John Bolan, Canadian Law Library Review

Spis treści

1. What is vicarious liability?; 2. Establishing a general framework for liability; 3. The employer/employee relationship: identifying the contract of employment; 4. Special difficulties: borrowed employees and temporary workers; 5. Other relationships giving rise to liability; 6. Acting in the course of one's employment/functions/assigned tasks: determining the scope of vicarious liability; 7. Parental liability for the torts of their children: a new form of vicarious liability?; 8. Understanding vicarious liability: reconciling policy and principle; 9. A postscript: a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?; Annex: Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes.