21. In my judgment, dual vicarious liability should be a legal possibility, and I would hold that it is. 22. To establish vicarious liability , the courts must find first that there exists a relationship of employee and employer. 23. So if a supervisor engages in harassment, the employer is subject to " vicarious liability , " the court said. 24. What had already been submitted in regard to vicarious liability , Wessels argued, was therefore also applicable in this regard. 25. An independent tort may fall within or outside the range of the employer's liability under the vicarious liability regime. 26. The contemporary rationale of employers'vicarious liability is as applicable to this new wrong as it is to common law torts. 27. But there is still another option, " vicarious liability , " in which proof of intent is not essential, Schwartz said. 28. Conversion, assault and battery may attract criminal liability as well as civil liability, but this does not exclude vicarious liability . 29. We believe that if you impose vicarious liability on the industry, then the porn problem is not going to be solved. 30. A precondition of vicarious liability is that the wrong must be committed by an employee in the course of his employment.
