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Serious crushing injuries: Bryan Alexander Ltd fined for health and safety offence
Crushing injuries: £46,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Bryan Alexander Ltd (2017) Plymouth magistrates’ court, April 3 Statutory...

Robert Spicer
Apr 9, 20171 min read
Worker electrocuted: life-changing injuries: BAM Construction Ltd fined £260,000
Worker electrocuted: £260,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v BAM Construction Ltd and Shoreland Projects Ltd (2017) Winchester Crown...

Robert Spicer
Apr 6, 20171 min read
Essar Oil (UK) Ltd fined £1.65million for major oil refinery explosion
Essar Oil (UK) Ltd fined £1,650,000 after explosion at refinery [remove for online] Health and Safety Executive v Essar Oil (UK) Ltd...

Robert Spicer
Apr 4, 20171 min read
Heathrow crushing death: Laing O’Rourke fined £800,000
Construction company fined £800,000 following Heathrow crushing death Health and Safety Executive v Laing O’Rourke Construction Ltd...

Robert Spicer
Mar 26, 20171 min read
Disability discrimination: wheelchair user: FirstGroup bus: no compensation:Supreme Court
Reasonable adjustments Case FirstGroup plc v Paulley [2017} IRLR 258, Supreme Court Facts P, a wheelchair user, tried to catch a bus...

Robert Spicer
Mar 21, 20171 min read
Fall from aircraft: Stansted Airport: serious injuries: £160,000 fine
Fall from aircraft: serious injuries: £160,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Inflite Engineering Ltd (2017) Chelmsford magistrates’...

Robert Spicer
Mar 19, 20171 min read
London Container (Tilbury) Ltd fined after worker suffers life-changing injuries
Container terminal fined £180,000 following serious injuries to worker Health and Safety Executive v London Container (Tilbury) Ltd...

Robert Spicer
Mar 13, 20171 min read
Stately home butler crushed to death by lift: £266,000 fine for employer
Lift crushing death: stately home operator fined £266,000 Health and Safety Executive v Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd (2017)...

Robert Spicer
Mar 12, 20171 min read
MOD agency driver killed: no prosecution: Crown Censure: rule of law? You speak in jest
Driver death: Ministry of Defence Crown Censure Statutory reference: ss. 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974 (HSWA)....

Robert Spicer
Mar 11, 20172 min read
Workplace death from hydraulic cylinder: £800,000 fine
Death of worker: construction hire equipment hire company fined £800,000 Health and Safety Executive v AGD Equipment Ltd (2017) Warwick...

Robert Spicer
Feb 20, 20171 min read
Workplace forklift truck injury: suspended prison sentences
Forklift incident: serious injuries: suspended sentences for employers [remove for online] Health and Safety Executive v Maurice James...

Robert Spicer
Feb 19, 20171 min read
Workplace death fall
Fall death: £600,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Go Ahead London (2017) Southwark Crown Court, February 14 Statutory reference:...

Robert Spicer
Feb 18, 20171 min read
Unfair dismissal: issues not raised by claimant
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Issues not raised in claim form Case Perry’s Motor Sales Ltd v Edwards (2017) Morning Star, February 17, EAT Facts E was...

Robert Spicer
Feb 18, 20171 min read
Trade union purposes
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Automatically unfair Trade union purposes Case Metrolink RATPDEV v Morris UKEAT/0113/16/RN Facts M, a union...

Robert Spicer
Feb 12, 20171 min read
Assault after Christmas Party
Assault after Christmas Party Case Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd [2017] IRLR 124, High Court Facts B, an employee of N, went to...

Robert Spicer
Feb 9, 20171 min read
Easyjet: breastfeeding facilities: sex discrimination
The recent Bristol employment tribunal decision in the case of McFarlane and Ambacher v Easyjet Airline Co Ltd has given guidance on the...

Robert Spicer
Jan 10, 20172 min read
Work experience teenager seriously injured: Radwell International Ltd fined £86,000
Work experience injury: £86,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Radwell International Ltd (2016) Stafford Crown Court, December 2...

Robert Spicer
Dec 18, 20161 min read
Bathurst Mews basement excavation: serious safety breaches: two companies fined
Basement excavation: serious safety breaches: companies fined Health and Safety Executive v Lifehouse (London) Ltd and Nu Space (Design)...

Robert Spicer
Dec 15, 20161 min read
Death of worker on Putney construction site: three companies prosecuted
Construction companies fined after death of worker Health and Safety Executive v St James Group Ltd, Mitchellson Formwork and Civil...

Robert Spicer
Dec 14, 20161 min read
Farm death of 11 year old: drunk tractor driver: prison sentence
Farm death: drunk tractor driver: prison sentence Health and Safety Executive v Gary Green (2016) Leeds Crown Court, December 13...

Robert Spicer
Dec 13, 20161 min read
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