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Vicarious liability and the beautiful game – liability for professional and amateur footballers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2018

Phillip Morgan*
Affiliation:
York Law School, University of York, York, UK
*

Abstract

Vicarious liability has a greater reach within both professional and amateur football than previously thought. The newly-expanded doctrine has opened up vicarious liability for amateur players, and within grassroots teams. A greater range of torts may also now trigger vicarious liability, such as acts of on and off-pitch violence. The Football Association will need to review the scope of the National Game Insurance Scheme, which significantly lags behind this expanded exposure to vicarious liability.

Examining vicarious liability in the context of football also reveals significant problems with the current approach to vicarious liability within unincorporated associations. This category developed in the context of institutional abuse within highly-organised religious institutions; it does not mean that this category of vicarious liability should be applied to grassroots sporting organisations in the same way. For instance there is scope to apply a different test at stage two. It is argued that the courts will need to tighten up this category so as not to unnecessarily expose members of grass roots organisations to vicarious liability which is able to be executed against their personal assets. Both amateur and professional clubs may also wish to carefully consider their selection of players.

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Footnotes

This paper was presented at ‘The Not-So Beautiful Game’ Seminar, Newcastle University (8 May 2017) organised by Dr Christine Beuermann. The author would like to thank participants for their comments, and also the anonymous referees for their comments on this paper.

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95 Whilst in Vowles v Evans the Welsh Rugby Union accepted that they would be vicariously liable for an amateur referee's torts, such a tactical litigation concession (as similarly made in Maga in the context of a priest/bishop relationship) is not the same as accepting that this is an employment relationship, but rather that the relationship may be sufficient to trigger vicarious liability. In the light of the subsequent case of Gravil this concession made in Vowles may have been open to question at the time of the case as a matter of law, but this concession may have been necessary to maintain the goodwill of amateur referees, and their continued volunteering.

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103 [1953] 2 Lloyd's Rep 613.

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105 The author is not alone in suggesting that this category may generate vicarious liability for amateur sportspersons, see Griffith-Jones and Randall, above n 22, para [H7.17].

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109 [2012] UKSC 56, [2013] 2 AC 1.

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111 At [47].

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119 Note Morgan, above n 67.

120 United States Restatement (Third) of Agency, 2006, § 7.07 (3), 82 ALR 3d 1213. See for instance Scottsdales Jaycees v Superior Court of Maricopa County (1972) 17 Ariz App 571, 499 P2d 185; Garcia v Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund (1976) 51 App Div 2d 987, 380 NYS2d 676; Baxter v Morningside Inc (1974) 10 Wash App 893, 521 P2d 946; Trinity Lutheran Church Inc v Miller (1983) Ind App 451, NE2d 1099; South Australia Volunteers Protection Act 2001, s 5(1).

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125 [1986] Ch 20.

126 [2003] 2 AC 366.

127 Ashworth v Stanwix 121 ER 606, (1860) 3 El & El 701.

128 [1903] 1 KB 81.

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130 Atiyah, above n 67, p 3.

131 Chapter 11.

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133 [2017] IESC 6.

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140 At [21].

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142 At [42].

143 Ibid.

144 The author briefly advanced this point in Morgan, above n 39, which has received extrajudicial support from Lord Hope in ‘Tailoring the law on vicarious liability’ (2013) 129 LQR 514 at 526.

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150 Football Association ‘Standard Code of Rules for Youth Competitions 2016–17’ Rule 22.

153 Ibid, ‘Group Personal Accident Insurance’, Summary of Benefits.

154 Above n 151.

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158 Ibid.

159 Ibid, p 7.

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