Tags: vicarious liability

Kneale v Footscray Football Club Ltd [2023] VSC 679

Keywords: public liability, vicarious liability, volunteers
23 November 2023

Tattersall v Dormakaba Australia Pty Ltd [2023] ACTSC 390

Keywords: breach of duty of care, Civil law, negligence, personal injury claim arising from fault in…
08 September 2023

CM v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Armidale; EM v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Armidale [2023] NSWSC 1000

Keywords: absence of critical witnesses and documents, Civil procedure, historical child sexual abuse, negligence, stay of…
23 August 2023

CCIG Investments Pty Ltd -v- Aaron Schokman [2023] HCA 21

Keywords: negligence, torts, vicarious liability, Where appellant employer of respondent, Where appellant required respondent to live…
02 August 2023

Mt Owen Pty Ltd v Parkes [2023] NSWCA 77

Keywords: apportionment of liability between legal employer and host employer, breach of duty, Damages, duty of…
26 April 2023

Bird v DP (a pseudonym) [2023] VSCA 66

Keywords: Abuse committed in home of parishioners, appeal dismissed, Assault, Assistant priest appointed to Diocese, Assistant…
03 April 2023

SR v Trustees of the De La Salle Brothers [2023] NSWSC 66

Keywords: common law damages, exemplary and aggravated damages, historical child sexual assault, negligence, schoolteacher and student,…
10 February 2023

Garrett v Victorian WorkCover Authority [2023] VSCA 144

Keywords: appeal, co-security guard for no apparent reason pulled his loaded firearm out of its holster…
26 October 2022

Clancy v Plaintiffs A, B, C and D; Bird v Plaintiffs A, B, C and D [2022] NSWCA 119

Keywords: children, dual vicarious liability, employee vs contractor, evidence, exemplary damages, intentional tort, negligence, NSW, personal…
06 July 2022

Schokman v CCIG Investments Pty Ltd [2022] QCA 38

Keywords: intoxication, liability of employer for acts of employee, shared employee accommodation, vicarious liability, workers’ compensation
18 March 2022

Shaw v Niru Construction Pty Ltd & Anor (No 2) [2021] NSWDC 600

Keywords: categorisation of risk, conduct of a company, construction company, contributory negligence, director, easement for drainage,…
05 November 2021

Zheng Ianni & Ors (No.3) [2021] NSWDC 521

Keywords: agency, as occupiers, claim against builders, construction site, Injured contractor, ostensible authority, owe Plaintiff duty…
30 September 2021

Schokman v CCIG Investments Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 120

Keywords: causation, drunken misadventure, scope of duty and breach, standard of care, vicarious liability, workers’ compensation
27 May 2021

Castle v Perisher Blue Pty Limited [2020] NSWSC 1652

Keywords: collision on slope, Consumer Law, contributory negligence, dangerous recreational activity, guarantee as to due care…
11 December 2020

Shaw v Oakdale Junior Motorcycle Club Inc [2020] NSWSC 180

Keywords: CLA, motor racing accident, negligence, obvious risk, vicarious liability, where defendant administers licensing scheme and…
06 March 2020

Von Schoeler v Allen Taylor and Company Ltd trading as Boral Timber (No 2) [2020] FCAFC 13

Keywords: allegations of sexual harassment, delay between trial and decision by primary judge, discrimination, duty of…
20 February 2020