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Vicarious Liability & Nuisance

Who pays, and interference with land.

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  1. 1.Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society [2012] — held?

    Vicarious liability can arise from relationships "akin to employment" where there is a close connection with the wrongdoing.

    [2012] UKSC 56

  2. 2.Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets [2016] — held?

    Morrisons was vicariously liable for an employee's assault on a customer because it was closely connected with his field of activities.

    [2016] UKSC 11

  3. 3.WM Morrison Supermarkets v Various Claimants [2020] — held?

    Morrisons was not vicariously liable for an employee's deliberate leak of payroll data to harm the company, as he was pursuing a personal vendetta.

    [2020] UKSC 12

  4. 4.Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] — held?

    No vicarious liability for an independent contractor (a doctor running his own practice) — the relationship was not akin to employment.

    [2020] UKSC 13

  5. 5.Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] — held?

    Only those with a proprietary interest in the land can sue in private nuisance; interference with TV reception by a building was not actionable.

    [1997] AC 655 (HL)

  6. 6.Coventry v Lawrence [2014] — held?

    "Coming to the nuisance" is no defence, and planning permission does not of itself authorise a nuisance.

    [2014] UKSC 13

  7. 7.Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] — held?

    Constant visual intrusion into neighbouring flats from a public viewing platform was an actionable private nuisance.

    [2023] UKSC 4