The WLR Daily case summaries
[2011] WLR (D) 110
TORT— Cause of action— Battery— Contributory negligence— — Altercation taking place between employee and store manager— — Employee bringing claim for damages claiming employer vicariously liable for manager’s alleged tort of assault and battery— — Employer raising defence of employee’s contributory negligence— — Whether defendant to claim for damages for tort of assault and battery able to assert contributory negligence to reduce award of damages— — Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945, ss 1(1), 4