Unprovoked attack by "door supervisors"

JD Wetherspoon plc v Burger [2025] EWHC 1259 (KB)

It is never easy to predict whether a court will accept arguments that an employer was vicariously liable. The issue is very fact specific and often depends on the analysis of complex background information or contractual terms and judicial policy issues which have now become so entrenched that although the tests applied to determine whether there is vicarious liability are products of policy, they are frequently applied without any discussion of the policy justifications.