Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. The Cambridge Law Journal
  4. Volume 63 Issue 1
Journal Home
Refine listing

Refine listing

Access:
Publication date:

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×
< Back to all issues

Volume 63 - Issue 1 - 27 March 2004

The Cambridge Law Journal Volume 63 - Issue 1 -
Contents

Page 1 of 2

Case and Comment

Shorter Article

  • Vicarious Liability for Violent Employees

  • Robert Weekes
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 April 2004, pp. 53-64

  • A series of recent cases have extended the liability of employers for intentional wrongdoing by their employees. The article explores the implications of these decisions, arguing that they evidence the revival of the “master’s tort” theory of vicarious liability, and have the potential for a further, undesirable, widening of liability rules.

Research Article

Page 1 of 2