Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Diagrams
- Table of cases
- Table of legislation
- Preface
- 1 What is vicarious liability?
- 2 Establishing a general framework for liability
- 3 The employer/employee relationship: identifying the contract of employment
- 4 Special difficulties: borrowed employees and temporary workers
- 5 Other relationships giving rise to liability
- 6 Acting in the course of one's employment/functions/assigned tasks: determining the scope of vicarious liability
- 7 Parental liability for the torts of their children: a new form of vicarious liability?
- 8 Understanding vicarious liability: reconciling policy and principle
- 9 A postscript: a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?
- Appendix: Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes
- Index
- Titles in the series
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Diagrams
- Table of cases
- Table of legislation
- Preface
- 1 What is vicarious liability?
- 2 Establishing a general framework for liability
- 3 The employer/employee relationship: identifying the contract of employment
- 4 Special difficulties: borrowed employees and temporary workers
- 5 Other relationships giving rise to liability
- 6 Acting in the course of one's employment/functions/assigned tasks: determining the scope of vicarious liability
- 7 Parental liability for the torts of their children: a new form of vicarious liability?
- 8 Understanding vicarious liability: reconciling policy and principle
- 9 A postscript: a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?
- Appendix: Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes
- Index
- Titles in the series
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- Vicarious Liability in TortA Comparative Perspective, pp. i - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010