Employer's liability

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Employer's liability

Employer's personal duty

1. Competent staff

Hudson v Ridge Manufacturing Co Ltd

Waters v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

2. Adequate equipment

Bux v Slough Metals

Yorkshire Traction Co Ltd v Walter Searby

3. A safe place of work

Latimer v AEC

Wilson v Tyneside Window Cleaning Co

Cook v Square D Ltd

4. A safe system of working

Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority

Pape v Cumbria County Council

Fraser v Winchester Health Authority

Types of harm

1. Psychiatric injury

-Primary victim

Walker v Northumberland County Council

Hatton v Sutherland

Barber v Somerset County Council

Jones v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Bishop v Baker Refractories Ltd

Draw v Intel Corporation

Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust

-Secondary victim

Simmons v British Steel plc

Donachie v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police

2. Economic loss

Spring v Guardian Assurance plc

Scally v Southern Health and Social Services Board

Crossley v Faithful and Gould Holdings Ltd

Hedley Byrne

The Scope of the Employer's duty

Withers v Perry Chain

Henderson v Wakefield Shirt Co Ltd

Paris v Stepney Borough Council

Delegating the employer's duty

Mullaney v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police