Vicarious liability in tort : a comparative perspective / Paula Giliker.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

1st edition

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Respondeat superior.

Third parties (Law)

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?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521763370

xliii, 280 p. ; 24 cm