Read the full judgment text of HCME 11/2010 on BabelCite. This HCME judgment was delivered on 30 September 2011.
1. In a case decided in the 1970s, the English Court of Appeal accepted that in the world of insurance, “it is very common indeed to have freelance agents” [1] . Locally, the trade practice appears to be the same [2] . But the issue as to whether an insurance agent engaged by an insurer is its employee and hence the correctness of the industry’s view of the relationship is seldom tested in courts. Mr Yu, SC, for the defendant in this appeal, is only able to cite three unreported cases where the
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