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Kordakis v National Insurance and Guarantee Corporation Ltd [OH]
Proof or jury trial – Whether special cause - Personal injuries - Damages action arising out of road accident - Calculation of future wage loss - Application of Ogden Tables - Whether special cause had been shown for withholding jury trial. HELD issues allowed. No reason had been shown to justifying withholding a jury trial
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Parent company's liability for asbestosis contracted by subsidiary's employee - Chandler v Cape Plc [CA] 25.04.12 (Unreported)
Employer’s liability – Employee exposed to asbestos at work – Action raised against employer’s parent company - Circumstances in which parent company liable for health and safety of employees of subsidiary which was no longer in existence. HELD that defendant company owed a duty of care in this case. Its appeal was therefore dismissed
Vicarious liability for employee murdering work colleague (Outer House case) - Vaickuviene v J Sainsbury plc [OH] 26.04.12 (Unreported)
Murder of Roman Romasov by work colleague Robert McCulloch - Damages action by deceased's family against employer - Whether employer vicariously liable - Murderer having extreme and racist views about Eastern European workers such as the deceased coming to the UK - Deceased making written complaint to employer about murderer's racist and aggressive behaviour towards him - Employer taking no disciplinary action - Murder occurring in place of work - Whether amounting to harassment in terms of s.8 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Previous authorities re vicarious liability for harassment - Whether incident closely connected with his employment - Whether in the course of employment. HELD proof before answer allowed
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