Orkney excavator crushing death: £12,000 fine Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service v William George Sinclair Reid t/a E&M...

Advocacy A standard text on practical hints for advocacy at the Bar makes the following points: It is generally accepted throughout the...

Corporate manslaughter: company and owner sentenced R v Peter Mawson and Peter Mawson Ltd (2015) Preston Crown Court, February 3 Peter...

Paris Commune For ten weeks in 1871, workers, artisans, students and veterans of revolutions took control of the second largest city in...

The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers have created a petition in support of all human rights lawyers in the wake of the attempts to...

From 5th April 2015, the following key increases will be implemented; • Limit on basic award’s week pay (redundancy and unfair dismissal) ...

Some employers appear more than once in recently reported health and safety prosecutions. For example: Corus (UK) Ltd, the steelmaking...

Individual and collective human rights For an ex-miner in Blaenau Gwent, suffering from a terminal lung disease, who develops a raging...

Law books are almost always prohibitively expensive. Some titles, costing hundreds of pounds, are marketed as “essential” texts. They...

Molten metal burns: £200,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Tata Steel Ltd (2015) Swansea Crown Court, February 16 Tata Steel Ltd has...

Earlier this week, the civil justice council released a report proposing an online court system for dealing with claims up to £25,000....

The news that a 91-year old former PE teacher has been jailed for 9 years for sexually abusing schoolboys raises a number of points: 1....

SEX DISCRIMINATION Employment tribunal fees Case R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor (No.2) [2015] IRLR 99, High Court...

Benefit Fraud From time to time, civil servants enforcing welfare benefit rules proudly announce that they have uncovered widespread...

Death fall: company and subcontractors fined Health and Safety Executive v Alumet Renewable Technologies Ltd, Midlands Solar Solutions...

Extracts highly relevant to lawyers include: * The is little that many industrial nations can show our region since half their youths are...

Offshore death: £100,000 fine Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service v Bilfinger Salamis UK Ltd (2015) Aberdeen Sheriff Court,...

Construction site welfare and safety standards: £13,000 fines Health and Safety Executive v Keith Bell and KW Bell Group Ltd (2014)...

Health and Safety Executive v Western Park Leicester Ltd (2014) Leicester Crown Court, January 23. A company which owns a care home in...

Health and Safety Executive v Stagecraft Display Ltd (2014) Llandrindod Wells magistrates’ court, January 21. Stagecraft Display Ltd has...