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Vicarious liability

10 July 2015
Issue: 7660 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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A v The Trustees of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and others [2015] EWHC 1722 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 249 (Jun)

In a historic sexual abuse claim by the claimant against various aspects and persons of the Jehovah’s Witness organisation, the Queen’s Bench Division held that the organisation of Jehovah’s Witness was vicariously liable for the acts of various members and that s 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 would be used to allow the claimant to bring her claim.

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