Weddall v Barchester Healthcare Ltd; Wallbank v Wallbank Fox Designs Ltd

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The Court of Appeal stresses that whether an employer will be vicariously liable for one employee’s violent actions towards another employee depends on whether there is a sufficiently close connection between what the employee is actually required to do and the violent action. Only if such violence can truly be said to be ‘in the course of employment’ will an employer be liable.
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