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A Pause In The Expansion Of Vicarious Liability, Kee Yang Low, Siang Ping Lai
A Pause In The Expansion Of Vicarious Liability, Kee Yang Low, Siang Ping Lai
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The doctrine of vicarious liability has undergone dramatic development in recent times and has been extended to scenarios quite different from that of employer-employee. The question is: will vicarious liability be applied to a situation where the tortfeasor is an independent contractor? The UKSC supplied the answer in Barclays Bank v Various Claimants. This article considers the implications of this landmark decision.
An Examination Of How The Canadian Military’S Legal System Responds To Sexual Assault, Elaine Craig
An Examination Of How The Canadian Military’S Legal System Responds To Sexual Assault, Elaine Craig
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Although the Canadian military has been conducting sexual assault trials for over twenty years, there has been no academic study of them and no external review of them. This review of the military’s sexual assault cases (the first of its kind) yields several important findings. First, the conviction rate for the offence of sexual assault by courts martial is dramatically lower than the rate in Canada’s civilian criminal courts. The difference between acquittal rates in sexual assault cases in these two systems appears to be even larger. Since Operation Honour was launched in 2015 only one soldier has been convicted …