Kafagi v JBW Group Ltd

Subject Matter

VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Relationship akin to employment — Bailiff — Bailiff alleged to have committed torts while entering claimant’s premises at behest of defendant — Whether bailiff employee of defendant or independent contractor — Whether relationship between bailiff and defendant “akin to” relationship of employer to employee — Whether defendant vicariously liable for bailiff

[2018] EWCA Civ 1157; [2018] WLR (D) 309, CA