Vicarious liability in tort
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: Paula Giliker
Series: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law; Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780511909764; 9780521763370
Subjects: Torts; Respondeat superior; Third parties (Law); LAW
Description: "Vicarious liability is controversial: a principle of strict liability in an area dominated by fault-based liability. By making an innocent party pay compensation for the torts of another, it can also appear unjust. Yet it is a principle found in all Western legal systems, be they civil law or common law. Despite uncertainty as to its justifications, it is accepted as necessary. In our modern global economy, we are unlikely to understand its meaning and rationale through study of one legal system alone. Using her considerable experience as a comparative tort lawyer, Paula Giliker examines the principle of vicarious liability (or, to a civil lawyer, liability for the acts of others) in England and Wales, Australia, Canada, France and Germany, and with reference to legal systems in countries such as the United States, New Zealand and Spain"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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?; Annex: Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes.