| 词条 | Denham v Midland Employers' Mutual Assurance Ltd |
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| italic title = force | name = Denham v Midland Employers’ Mutual Assurance Ltd | court = | image = | date decided = | full name = | citations = [1955] 2 QB 437 | judges = | prior actions = | subsequent actions = | opinions = | transcripts = | keywords = }} Denham v Midland Employers’ Mutual Assurance Ltd [1955] 2 QB 437 is an English contract law case, concerning multiple employers. FactsA company hired Mr Denham to work on its land, and provided him with an assistant unskilled labourer. This man was killed on the job, due to the negligence of Mr Denham's co-workers. The dead man was at all times paid by the company, and the company alone had the power to dismiss him. The question was whether Mr Denham's insurer or the insurer of the company should pay the damages to the deceased man's widow. JudgmentDenning LJ held that a contract of service cannot be transferred from one employer to another without the servant's consent, and it must be real consent. At 444, ‘These results are achieved in law by holding that Clegg became for the time being the temporary servant for Le Grands. There is no harm in thus describing him so long as it is remembered that it is a device designed to cast liability on the temporary employer. The real basis of the liability is, however, simply this: if a temporary employer has the right to control the manner in which a labourer does his work, so as to be able to tell him the right way or the wrong way to do it, then he should be responsible when he does it in the wrong way as well as in the right way. The right of control carries with it the burden of responsibility.’ ReferencesNotes{{notelist}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Denham V Midland Employers' Mutual Assurance Ltd}}{{UK-law-stub}} 6 : United Kingdom labour case law|English contract case law|Court of Appeal of England and Wales cases|1955 in British law|1955 in case law|Lord Denning cases |
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