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Robert Spicer
Jun 9, 20132 min read
Recent health and safety prosecutions
Skip lorry death: £300,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Adis Scaffolding Ltd (2013) Derby Crown Court, June 7. Adis Scaffolding...
Robert Spicer
May 4, 20133 min read
Health and safety under attack
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, which received the Royal Assent on April 25, has significantly changed employees’ rights in...
Robert Spicer
Mar 25, 20132 min read
Health and Safety: Extreme Example
Health and safety law is the Cinderella of the English legal system. It rarely features in law school syllabuses, iunder constant attack...
Robert Spicer
Nov 19, 20122 min read
Bristol Health and Safety Prosecution
£12,700 fine Health and Safety Executive v Clear Channel UK Ltd (2012) Bristol magistrates’ court, August 20. Clear Channel UK Ltd, an...
Robert Spicer
Sep 30, 20121 min read
Health and Safety Prosecution
Death of steelworker: £500,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Tata Steels UK Ltd (2012) Swansea Crown Court, August 3. Tata Steels UK...
Robert Spicer
Sep 5, 20122 min read
Bristol Health and Safety Prosecution
Bristol health and safety prosecution: £12,700 fine Health and Safety Executive v Clear Channel UK Ltd (2012) Bristol magistrates’ court,...
Robert Spicer
Aug 8, 20121 min read
Health and safety in a war context
Comparative health and safety in a war context Reports of health and safety prosecutions cover, with depressing regularity, incidents...
Robert Spicer
Jul 6, 20126 min read
Recent Health and Safety Prosecutions July 2012
Fatal head injuries: £200,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v SITA UK Ltd (2012) Wolverhampton Crown Court, June SITA UK Ltd, a...
Robert Spicer
Jun 21, 20123 min read
Recent Health and Safety Prosecutions June 2012
Severed hand: £100,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Lisec (UK and Ireland) Ltd (2012) Teesside Crown Court, May 29 Lisec (UK and...
Robert Spicer
Jun 10, 20125 min read
Corporate Manslaughter
Second conviction since 2008 JMW Farms Limited, a Northern Irish farming company, has been fined following its conviction for corporate...
Robert Spicer
Mar 11, 20123 min read
Horse-racing: Health and Safety
Leading racehorse trainer prosecuted for health and safety failings With Cheltenham Festival coming up this week, it seems appropriate to...
Robert Spicer
Feb 3, 20121 min read
Recent Bristol Health and Safety prosecution
CR Construction (SW) Ltd, a Bristol building firm, has been fined after HSE inspectors found inadequate hygiene facilities at its site in...
Robert Spicer
Jan 17, 20123 min read
Health and Safety attacked
Cameron attacks Britain’s ‘health and safety culture’ but raises more questions than answers Last week at a conference for business...
Robert Spicer
Jan 5, 20122 min read
Recent Health and Safety Fines and Prosecutions
Anyone providing advice on employment law in general, and health and safety law in particular, needs to be aware of the following recent...
Robert Spicer
Dec 21, 20112 min read
Health and Safety: the reality
Those of us who provide advice on employment law in Bristol, and throughout the UK, have a duty to argue against the current...
Robert Spicer
Dec 7, 20112 min read
Health and safety offences:level of fines
Employment law advisers in Bristol, and in the whole of the United Kingdom, should be aware of the decision of the Scottish High Court in...
Robert Spicer
Jan 23, 20103 min read
The importance of Health and Safety Law
In the early nineteenth century the industrial revolution caused a massive, rapid and uncontrolled increase in the number of workers...
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