Employer vicariously liable for employee's assault on managing director
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Weddall v Barchester Healthcare Ltd; Wallbank v Wallbank Fox Designs Ltd [2012] IRLR 307 CA (0 other reports)
health and safety | vicarious liability | violence
The Court of Appeal has affirmed that, where an employee inflicts violence on another employee or third party, the vicarious liability of the employer for the employee's violent act will depend on the closeness of the violent act to the employee's employment.