IQBAL v. LONDON TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE

Abstract

June 6,1973 Vicarious liability — Master and servant — Course of employment — Bus conductor driving bus — Bus blocking path of conductor's and plaintiff driver's bus — Conductor told by plaintiff to get engineer to move bus — Conductor attempting to move bus himself — Not knowing how to drive bus — Driver injured by conductor's negligent manoeuvre — Express prohibition in bus company's rules against conductors driving buses — Clear separation of duties of drivers and conductors — General duty of conductors to co‐operate with drivers in getting buses into service — Whether bus company vicariously liable for conductor's action — Whether within scope of employment.

Citation

Megaw, L.J., Buckley, L.J. and Orr, L.J. (1974), "IQBAL v. LONDON TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE", Managerial Law, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 329-338. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022327