Pinecot Pty Ltd v Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

• 1. Anti-Discrimination Law
  2. › Sexual harassment
  3. › Vicarious liability of employer for employee's conduct
  4. › Whether employer vicariously liable for employee's sexual harassment
  5. › Absence of express vicarious liability provision
  6. › Comparison with equivalent legislation in other jurisdictions
  7. › Anti-Discrimination Act (NT), ss 22, 27
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Construction of anti-discrimination legislation
  3. › Whether vicarious liability to be implied
  4. › Relevance of objects and purposes of Act
  5. › Relevance of absence of express provision
  6. › Comparison with cognate legislation
  7. › Anti-Discrimination Act (NT), ss 3, 22, 27, 28
• 1. Administrative Law
  2. › Judicial review
  3. › Certiorari and prohibition
  4. › Jurisdictional error
  5. › Statutory tribunal exceeding jurisdiction by finding vicarious liability existed
  6. › Availability of judicial review where statutory appeal exists
• 1. Tort Law
  2. › Vicarious liability
  3. › Nature and scope of vicarious liability
  4. › Whether statutory prohibition creates statutory tort
  5. › Distinction between vicarious liability and direct liability
  6. › Whether vicarious liability extends to statutory prohibitions not giving rise to common law duty

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