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    This document discusses different types of legal liability including occupier's liability, vicarious liability, and the distinction between contract of service and contract for service. It notes that a contract of service relationship, where vicarious liability may apply, can be constructed or determined based on factors like the power to select servants, payment of wages, control over work methods, and the right to suspend or dismiss. It briefly mentions two relevant case precedents from 1922 and 1946.

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    This document discusses different types of legal liability including occupier's liability, vicarious liability, and the distinction between contract of service and contract for service. It notes that a contract of service relationship, where vicarious liability may apply, can be constructed or determined based on factors like the power to select servants, payment of wages, control over work methods, and the right to suspend or dismiss. It briefly mentions two relevant case precedents from 1922 and 1946.

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    Law of Torts, MV Act and Consumer Protection: Eseries S.2

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    This document discusses different types of legal liability including occupier's liability, vicarious liability, and the distinction between contract of service and contract for service. It notes that a contract of service relationship, where vicarious liability may apply, can be constructed or determined based on factors like the power to select servants, payment of wages, control over work methods, and the right to suspend or dismiss. It briefly mentions two relevant case precedents from 1922 and 1946.

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    Law of Torts, MV Act and

    Consumer Protection
    eSeries
    S.2
    • After Occupier’s Liability, we look at Vicarious Liability
    • I assume by now all of you understand the distinction between
    contract of service and contract for service
    • Such a relation as in contract of service, can be constructed
    • For instance, certain factors can point to it/it can be constructed:
    - Power of selection of servant
    - Payment of wages/other remuneration
    - Right to control the method of doing the work
    - Right of suspension/dismissal
    Cases:
    • Cases :
    1. Performing Rights Society Ltd. v. Mitchell
    (1922)
    2. Short v. JW Henderson 1946

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