‘Evidence on 23 people and organisations linked to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster has been handed to prosecutors, it has been revealed.’
The Independent, 12th January 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Fifteen London businesses selling unsafe cosmetics products have been fined in a crackdown by Trading Standards.’
BBC News, 11th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘National chain store Wilko has been fined £2.2m after a worker was crushed and left paralysed.’
BBC News, 11th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A collation of cases and stories from the private sector, and a series of reminders that a database of rogue landlords, and indeed banning orders, can’t come soon enough.’
Nearly Legal, 8th January 2017
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The organiser of a daredevil stunt show in which a “human cannonball” died has been given a 12-month community order and his firm fined £100,000.’
BBC News, 20th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Britain’s most senior police officer gave a misleading account about the evidence he provided following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, but he remains innocent of any misconduct, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has found.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A tractor driver who drank the estimated equivalent of 13 pints of beer the night before he ran over and killed an 11-year-old boy on a farm has been jailed for more than a year.’
The Guardian, 13th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An 83-year-old farmer who kept Britain’s “most dangerous” herd of cows ignored official warnings to control them before they attacked and killed a retired professor.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A local authority in Wales has been ordered to pay more than £90,000 in fines and damages after a four-year-old boy nearly drowned during a swimming lesson.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd November 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Heinz TV advert teaching viewers how to use cans of its baked beans to drum out a song has been banned for being dangerous for children to copy.’
The Guardian, 23rd November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A district council has been fined £250,000 after a number of its workers were found to be suffering from ill-health relating to vibration exposure.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st November 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The beginning of 2016 has seen much focus on the buy to let market with the changes to the tax implications for those purchasers who already own property. The Government has announced further changes to come for buy to let landlords – might budding landlords seek to overcome these changes by exploring opportunities for shorter lets of their own homes, or alternatively, rooms in their own homes?’
Tanfield Chambers, 6th October 2016
Source: www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk
‘In his preface to the latest Ninth Edition of Redgrave’s Health and Safety, just published, Jonathan Clarke asks certain questions and answers them with a non-answer “time will tell”. I do not accept that these are real questions, because it seems to me the answers are so obvious, that they hardly need to have been asked.’
Zenith PI Blog, 3rd November 2016
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Legal costs for the families at the inquests into the deaths of the 96 Hillsborough victims totalled £63.6m.’
BBC News, 2nd November 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A coroner has said he owes it to the community to investigate what public safety measures could be used at a beach where seven people died in two separate incidents in the summer.’
The Guardian, 1st November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Liverpool City Council has been ordered to pay £115,000 in fines and costs after a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that the authority had failed to ensure that the arrangements for managing roadworks were suitable.’
Local Government Lawyer, 24th October 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Arguably the most serious miscarriage of justice of our times – lessons must be learned from the iconic Hillsborough proceedings, writes Pete Weatherby QC.’
Counsel, November 2016
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘Dressing gown owners are being warned to stay away from candles and open fires while wearing them, as a loophole in UK safety law means they can be made with highly flammable material.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A production company behind the latest Star Wars movie has been fined £1.6m ($2m) after Harrison Ford broke his leg on set.’
BBC News, 12th October 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Defence has been censured over the death of a soldier who was shot in the neck during a training exercise.
Fusilier Dean Griffiths, 21, of First Battalion the Royal Welsh, died at Lydd Range, Kent in September 2011.’
BBC News, 29th September 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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