Vicarious liability

Settled authority established that the test to be applied in ascertaining whether an employer was liable for the acts of his employee was: (i) whether the employer had entrusted to the employee the performance of a task which it, the employer, had undertaken; and (ii) if so, whether there was a sufficiently close connection between the torts and the employee’s employment for it to be fair and just to hold the employer vicariously liable.