Hearings
England & Wales
26 Oct 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1106, CA
21 Nov 2012 [2012] UKSC 56; [2013] 2 AC 1; [2012] 3 WLR 1319; [2013] 1 All ER 670; [2012] WLR (D) 335; Case details, SC(E)
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society
Subject Matter
VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Relationship akin to employment — Religious teaching order — Brother members of order taking vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and living communal life — School management board employing brothers as teachers at residential school — Brothers living communally on school premises — Physical and sexual abuse of boys by brothers alleged to have taken place — School management board vicariously liable as employer — Whether relationship between brothers and order akin to employment — Whether close connection between relationship between brothers and order and employment of brothers as teachers at school — Whether order jointly vicariously liable for abuse
[2012] UKSC 56; [2013] 2 AC 1; [2012] 3 WLR 1319; [2013] 1 All ER 670; [2012] WLR (D) 335; Case details, SC(E)
Appellate History
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society [2010] EWCA Civ 1106, CA
Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society [2012] UKSC 56; [2013] 2 AC 1; [2012] 3 WLR 1319; [2013] 1 All ER 670; [2012] WLR (D) 335; Case details, SC(E)