Common employment

Common employment

Common employment was an historical defence in English tort law that said workers implicitly undertook the risks of being injured by their co-workers, with whom they were in "common employment".

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The operation of the doctrine was seen in Priestly v Fowler.

It was abolished altogether by the Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act 1948.

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