VICARIOUS LIABILITY – EMPLOYERS ON THE HOOK

12 May 2017

While most employers are, at least notionally, aware that the actions of their employees can be attributed back to them, many do not explore the reasons or limits of this idea. Its source is the legal doctrine of Vicarious Liability, which gives form to the Latin maxim: “qui facit per alium facit per se” interpreted as “he who acts through another, does the act himself”.