Quadcast - Vicarious Liability: The Supreme Court’s London Buses?

OVERVIEW

You may have missed it but on 1st April 2020 the Supreme Court handed down two judgments clarifying the law on vicarious liability.  In Barclays v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 and Morrisons v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 the Supreme Court dealt with the familiar problem of the circumstances in which an employer can be liable for the actions of a rogue employee/contractor.  The Quadcast team explained the two decisions and debated whether the law has finally settled in this field.