He cannot therefore be liable as a joint tortfeasor with the company.
2.
In legal terms, they are joint tortfeasors.
3.
Surely a land-based joint tortfeasor has no claim to supposedly more favorable treatment.
4.
If an employer commissions a tort, this will render the employer a joint tortfeasor.
5.
Accordingly, he submitted, Mr . Mistlin was a joint tortfeasor with the company, the latter being liable to the respondents on the extended " Hedley Byrne " principle.
6.
In the Extension Act, Congress has already made a judgment that a land-based victim may properly be subject to admiralty jurisdiction; surely a land-based joint tortfeasor has no claim to supposedly more favorable treatment.
7.
However, Virginia law prohibits a defendant from impleading a joint tortfeasor against whom the plaintiff is prohibited from recovering ( such as plaintiff's employer in a negligent injury case, which would be covered by the state's workman's compensation ).
8.
The firm traces its origin to 1963, and has litigated the landmark cases of " Sirota v . Solitron Devices, Inc . " ( holding that there is an implied right of contribution among joint tortfeasors ) and " Escott v . BarChris Const.
9.
Like Hirst LJ in the Court of Appeal ( with whom Waite LJ agreed ) I am satisfied reading Langley J's judgment as a whole ( and see in particular at p . 303 ( c ) ) that he never intended to find that Mr . Mistlin was liable to the respondents as a joint tortfeasor.
10.
She sued him for damages, but because ( at the time the case was filed ) it was illegal to commit " fornication " ( sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are not married ), Ziherl argued that Martin could not sue him because joint tortfeasors-those involved in committing a crime-cannot sue each other over acts occurring as a result of a criminal act ( " Zysk v . Zysk ", 404 S . E . 2d 721 ( Va . 1990 ) ).
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