“…In Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc [2020] UKSC 12; [2020] AC 989 Lord Reed emphasised that the close connection test was not merely a question of timing or causation but of the application of orthodox common law reasoning, b…”
“…imants v Wm Morrisons Supermarkets plc [2017] EWHC 3113 (QB); [2019] QB 772 (reversed on the issue of vicarious liability by the Supreme Court: [2020] UKSC 12; [2020] AC 989). During the period of more than 12 years in which collective proceedings under the Competition Act 1998 (discussed below) could be brought only on an opt-in b…”
“…As the Supreme Court has confirmed in Various Claimants v Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc [2020] UKSC 12, [2020] AC 989, the second stage is concerned with whether the wrongful conduct is so closely connected with the acts which the employee was authorised to do that, for the pu…”