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Vicarious Liability

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8.Briefly explain the concept of vicarious liability.

Vicarious liability relates to a situation where someone is held liable for the actions or decisions of another person. In a working environment, an employer can be liable for the acts or omissions of its employees, provided it can be shown that they took place in the course of their employment. The definition of the word vicariois can help understand this law, it means experiencing the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person. Meaning that through the employees actions the employer will be held responsible.

 9a. What factors indicate that pat might be an employee?.

A factor that indicates that pat is employed can be found if we use the control test, The common law control test is the basic test, using the common law rules, for determining whether a relationship exists between the worker and the person or firm that they work for. Under the common-law test, the employer has the right to tell the employee what to do, how, when, and where to do the job. From the case study we can see that plum ltd has substancial

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