Tag (SQ): Employer Liability

James bought a ticket to watch his local amateur football team, Unity FC. On the ticket it stated, ‘No one may use any recording equipment in the stadium’. While James was at the match he started using his video camera to record parts of the game and was immediately asked by a club steward to leave the stadium.
Meanwhile, Kofi, a Unity FC defender accidentally kicked the ball over a wall and it landed on Sarah’s head in the garden of a house which backed on to the stadium. Sarah is a tenant of that house and she had a head injury as a result of the ball hit.
In the second half of the match, whilst Daniel was piloting an air balloon near the stadium, the weather turned windy and a hot air blew over the pitch affecting spectator Ama’s eyes and causing her to completely lose her sight. Strikers FC lost the game 4-0. A crowd of 50 supporters gathered on the public road outside the club offices chanting for the manager to resign.

(a) Advice (i) James, (ii) Kofi, (iii) Daniel, (iv) Strikers FC, and (v) the supporters of Strikers FC on their liability in trespass, if any.

(b) ‘The law on vicarious liability is not based on any clear principles or policy and is therefore difficult to apply in any particular case’.
Discuss in relation to the liability of an employer for the acts of an employee.