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Supreme Court decision ‘provides welcome clarification of the law of vicarious liability’

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Published on: 01 April 2020

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LNB News 01/04/2020

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Issue Date: 01 April 2020

Published Date: 01 April 2020

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland and Wales

Article summary

The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed the appeal in Barclays Bank v Various Claimants on the grounds that the Bank could not be vicariously liable for someone who was an independent contractor. Katie Ayres, barrister at 1 Chancery Lane, who represented Barclays Bank alongside Lord Faulks QC, discusses the judgment, highlighting that it is ‘a definitive "book-end" to the expansionary decisions’ in previous vicarious liability cases.

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