In MAGA v Trustees of the Birmingham Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church [2010] EWCA Civ 256, it was held that there was a sufficient connection for vicarious liability to attach to the Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church when a priest (Father Clonan) with special responsibility for youth work, sexually abused a non-Catholic boy whom he met [...]
I have come across two cases on the law of negligence that, even in the current climate of the compensation culture, judges have resisted the need to depart from the general principles of negligence. In Parker v TUI UK Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1261, the claimant was injured when taking part in a tobogganing event [...]
X & Y v Hounslow LBC [2009] EWCA Civ 286 held that a local authority did not, for the purposes of the law of negligence, owe a “duty of care” to two vulnerable adults to take steps to prevent them from suffering abuse in the community in which they lived. The claim was brought by X [...]
The claimant was a gambler and started telephone betting with the defendant in May 2006. In June 2006 the claimant asked the defendant to exclude him from telephone gambling for six months as he was having serious gambling problems. The claimant later suffered financial ruin and a deterioration in his gambling disorder. The claimant issued [...]
