Care home scalding: company and employee fined Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service v Sharon Dunlop and Real Life Options (2015)...

EP Thompson Thompson was a leading English historian, writer and peace campaigner. His leading work is generally recognised to be The...

Scaffolding death: £40,000 fine Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service v Extra Access Ltd (2015) Hamilton Sheriff Court, July 31...

The original concept of the Law Centre was a service of salaried solicitors and legal workers who would be able to devote themselves to...

Sita UK fined £200,000 for telehandler injury Health and Safety Executive v Sita UK Ltd (2015) Preston Crown Court, October13 Sita UK Ltd...

The US retail giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit against 1,114 anonymous reviewers for making “false, misleading and inauthentic” reviews...

THE CRIMINALISATION OF PRIVATE LANDLORDISM AND LAW PRACTICE Can it be done? Has it ever been done? The 1959 Cuban revolution destroyed...

UNFAIR DISMISSAL Reasonableness Case Newbound v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2015] IRLR 734, CA Statute reference Employment Rights Act...

Hydrogen explosion: £80,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Catalloy Ltd (2015) Warrington Crown Court, September 25 Catalloy Ltd, a...

The car industry has been rocked by the admission that the biggest car maker in the world, Volkswagen, have cheated emissions tests in...

The role of the employment tribunal as a cheap, quick and informal means of settling employment disputes looks set to become a footnote...

Self-employment: significant changes in the law Section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974 states that it shall be the...

Dangerous gas work: suspended prison sentences Health and Safety Executive v Lee Butterworth t/a English Riviera Building Company Ltd and...

The boredom of law Most law is dull. As noted above, Kafka likened reading a law book to eating sawdust. For anyone with a spark of...

This weekend (22nd – 23rd August), two separate horrific incidents occurred at air shows; the first, here in the UK, involved a Hawker...

In a speech to the Bar Council in November 2006, Lord Steyn put forward the following views: President Bush was guilty of high crimes...

Over the weekend (15th August), the New York Times published an article concerning the various workplace practices of Amazon, the world’s...

Death in unguarded machinery: £400,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v DS Smith Paper Ltd (2015) Exeter Crown Court, August 11 DS...

The Levellers Some of the earliest and most devastating criticisms of English law and lawyers were made by the Levellers in the...

Following protests around the UK this weekend, today (10th August 2015), farming unions are meeting to discuss falling milk prices. The...