Friday, March 11, 2016

Tort Law at the UK Supreme Court

The U.K. Supreme Court has posted a presentation of two of its judgments concerning tort law - in particular issues of vicarious liability. Mr A M Mohamud (in substitution for Mr A Mohamud (deceased)) v WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc - 4 min 56 sec and Cox v Ministry of Justice  by which vicarious liability was found when a prisoner working in the prison kitchen dropped a heavy bag of rice on the catering manager. 4 min 27 sec, no transcript.
You can find more information here about the judgments on the UK Human Rights Blog.