Description

Four years ago Lord Phillips wrote in the Hong Kong Law Journal that vicarious liability area was on the move. Vicarious liability is an extremely important area of tort law that has been seeing dramatic development across common law jurisdictions. The UK and Canadian Supreme Courts and the Singapore Court of Appeal have examined the area in great depth. But there are still unanswered questions. This lecture examines the routes to liability for fraudulent and negligent statements by others, and the extent to which such liability should be regarded as vicarious or explained in some other way.

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About The Speaker

Professor Francis Reynolds QC is an Emeritus Professor of Law in the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College, Doctor of Civil Law, Fellow of the British Academy, barrister, Honorary Q.C. and Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple. He is also standing consultant on English law to Ang & Partners, Singapore; Honorary Professor, International Maritime Law Institute of the IMO, Malta; Titular Member of the Comité Maritime International; and Supporting Member of the LMAA. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Auckland, Otago University, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, Monash University, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University and the University of Hong Kong.

He was the writer of Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency between 1968 and 2013, the writer (with Sir Guenter Treitel) of Carver on Bills of Lading, and a contributor to Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, Chitty on Contracts and English Private Law. He was the Editor of the Law Quarterly Review from 1987 to 2013. Professor Reynolds is an old friend of the NUS Law Faculty, having taught here on many occasions since the 1980s. He was named our first David Marshall Professor of Law in 1997 and has contributed significantly to the development of our common law curriculum. He was also the Law Faculty’s Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor in August 2017 and has taught generations of law students, leading legal practitioners and judges over the course of his career.