Where an employee is required by their employment contract to reside in employer-provided shared accommodation, a negligent act committed by one employee against another in that accommodation may be within the course of employment for vicarious liability purposes, because the employee occupies the room not as a stranger but pursuant to and under the obligations of the employment contract. The correct test remains the orthodox Australian approach — whether the act was 'entirely outside the relation of master and servant' — not the Canadian risk-creation or UK 'fair and just' tests.
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