WHO PAYS FOR THE SUB-CONTRACTOR'S NEGLIGENCE? VICARIOUS LIABILITY AND LIABILITY FOR “EXTRA-HAZARDOUS ACTIVITIES” RE-EXAMINED

"TORT is what is in the tort books, and the only thing holding it together is their binding... Naturally there are horses for courses, and the tort course sports quite a lot of horses, of very different breeds and speeds" (Weir, 'An Introduction to Tort Law' (2006), p. ix). Despi...

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Published in:Cambridge law journal 2010-03, Vol.69 (1), p.13-16
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CASE AND COMMENT
Court decisions
Horses
Independent contractors
Labor law
Law and legislation
Legal liability
Liability
Negligence
Tort law
Torts
Trials
Vicarious liability
Welders
Welding
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