Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

In the first case, it concluded that the employee was not acting in the course of his employment and that the employer was not vicariously liable for his violent act. In the second, it decided that the assault was in response to a lawful instruction and done in the course of his employment. It held that the employer should therefore bear vicarious liability.

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