The Industrial Cases Reports
[2025] ICR 1336
King’s Bench Division
ABC v Huntercombe (No 12) Ltd and others
[2025] EWHC 1000 (KB)
2025 March 10, 11; April 24
Judge Bird sitting as a High Court judge
Employment— Transfer of undertaking— Effect of transfer— Claimant claiming damages for wrongs suffered while in-patient at first defendant’s hospital— Claimant alleging first defendant vicariously liable for torts committed by employees and liable for breaches of human rights— Hospital business subsequently transferred to second defendant— Whether liability for alleged torts and breaches of human rights transferred to second defendant— Whether liability in sufficient and direct connection with contracts of employment—
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/246), reg 4(2)(a)