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4 May 2021 10:23
Health and safety risk assessmentsYou must carry out regular and comprehensive risk assessments within your business . These are not just a box-ticking exercise . You must take action to minimise any risks to health and safety that you find . Failure to do so can endanger your staff and other people , and even result in criminal more...
18 Sep 2020 09:21
COVID-19 Business Interruption insurance test case of The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch and Others.In this case note, Imran Benson explores the High Court’s judgment in the COVID-19 Business Interruption insurance test case of The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch and Others. Please click here to access the article. The post COVID-19 Business Interruption insurance test case of The Financial more...
23 Jul 2020 09:52
Enforcing the Novel Food regime - Part 1: Overview and Rationale – by Jonathan UnderhillIn the first of a short series of bite size articles, Jonathan Underhill takes a deeper look into the enforcement of the Novel Food regime and seeks to identify and breakdown the powers made available to those agencies, who are tasked with securing compliance. In this article Jonathan gives an more...
27 Mar 2020 12:38
Joggergate: How frequently is it necessary to exercise in Wales?For those wishing to exercise their exercise rights, the new Coronavirus regulations treat English and Welsh joggers rather differently. Regulation 6 of The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 states that, “During the emergency period, no person may leave the more...
4 Jul 2019 10:07
Barrister leads prosecution as company fined for tragic health and safety breachBarrister Bernard Thorogood led the prosecution as a company was fined £1.33 million after a woman was killed by debris blown off a building roof by Storm Doris in 2017. Tahnie Martin, 29, from Stafford, was hit by a wooden panel outside the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton. Ms Martin, who more...
6 Feb 2019 12:30
Regulatory round-up – January 2019The team at Walker Morris have produced their Regulatory round-up for January 2019: Health, Safety and Environmental – January 2019 Data Protection – January 2019 Consumer and Retail Finance – January 2019 more...
1 Feb 2019 14:27
3PB's Susan Jones represents family in inquest over the death of a dock workerProperly-enforced safety procedures would have prevented the death of a dock worker crushed by a container, an inquest jury has concluded. Mieczyslaw 'Mitch' Siwak, 34, from Bognor Regis, was killed at Flathouse Quay, Portsmouth, in 2017. MMD Shipping Services, which operates the site, said it had more...
20 Dec 2018 10:35
Sparqa Legal’s Top Four Christmas MoviesSparqa Legal can help your business deal with legal problems before they even arise, and allows you to respond effectively when problems do occur. Getting in the Christmas spirit, we have demonstrated below how we would help some of the characters from our favourite Christmas movies. 1. Elf A more...
9 Nov 2018 10:10
Tom Horder represents building contractor in HSE gas main prosecutionTom Horder has represented a building contractor in an HSE prosecution arising from damage to a gas main. During the subsequent repair works escaping gas ignited. On 6.11.18 At Folkstone Magistrates’ court Southern Gas Networks (the Co-defendant Company) was fined £1.2m and the building contractor more...
24 Oct 2018 08:22
R v The Office of the Chief Constable of Devon & Cornwall PoliceKaren Robinson was instructed (with Mark Heywood QC) to prosecute the Office of the Chief Constable of Devon & Cornwall Police in connection with alleged breaches of duty under Health & Safety legislation, in connection with the Force’s use of the Emergency Response Belt device in a custodial more...
8 Oct 2018 09:19
Round Up- Civil Partnerships for all and the Unlawfulness of Hardial Singh.In the News: The Government has announced that civil partnerships will be available to all couples, not just those which are same-sex. The government has said the move will address the “imbalance” of the current system. It will also provide a way of giving couples and their families greater security more...
Washing Machines, Oil Rigs and Waste – Health & Safety Investigations and Enforcement Update – Spring 2018
The new year has begun with three important appeal decisions that will be of particular interest to anyone practising in Health and Safety (“H&S”) law. They cover subjects as wide ranging as sentencing, enforcement notices and litigation privilege that are also relevant to a much wider spectrum of more...
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