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15 July 2016
Issue: 7707 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Insurance

Campbell v Gordon [2016] UKSC 38, [2016] All ER (D) 23 (Jul)

The Supreme Court held that a person could not be made indirectly liable for breach of an obligation imposed by statute on someone else, including on a company. There was no basis in case law or in statute for looking through the corporate veil to the directors or other individuals through whom the company acted. Accordingly, the second respondent director of the first respondent company would not be held liable for the company’s failure to have had in place adequate employer’s liability insurance in respect of the appellant’s workplace injury.

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Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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