Liability Risk and Insurance
Employer liable for assaults by doctor on job applicants
By Ed Duffield, managing associate, Bond Dickinson
In the recent case of Various Claimants v Barclays Bank plc [2017] EWHC 1929 (QB), the High Court had to decide whether Barclays
Bank was vicariously liable for alleged sexual assaults committed by a doctor who had been engaged by the bank to undertake
medical examinations of prospective job applicants.