The WLR Daily case summaries
[2023] WLR(D) 313
King’s Bench Division
DJ v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
[2023] EWHC 1815 (KB)
2023 March 14;, May 20; July 18
Lambert J
Negligence— Vicarious liability— Relationship akin to employment— Local authority placing claimant in voluntary care with maternal relatives— Relatives applying successfully to become foster parents— Claimant as adult bringing claim against local authority for historic sexual abuse by foster carer— Whether relationship between local authority and related foster carers akin to employment— Whether local authority liable for acts of foster carer