“The Keogh Report’s findings on 14 hospitals reveal that NHS failings of care claimed thousands of lives, including that of a man due to be married and a newborn baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Accident that led to deaths of three people caused by ‘catastrophic failure’ in a 20-year-old tyre, coroner rules.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Nicholls v Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1963; [2013] WLR (D) 277
“The failure by a betting shop to operate a magnetic lock to prevent a robbery during the hours of darkness was not a sufficient basis for a conclusion of a breach of a duty of care.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A father and son have today (Friday 28 June) been sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison at St. Albans Crown Court after being found guilty of the manslaughter – on the basis of gross negligence – of Stephen Kenyon, a driver employed at their haulage firm.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 28th June 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A restaurant and hotel firm has been fined £15,000 after a window cleaner was
filmed balancing precariously on a ledge outside one of its buildings.”
BBC News, 28th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A stonemason who fitted a fireplace at a house in Northamptonshire that toppled over and killed a four-year-old boy has been fined £7,500.”
BBC News, 26th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The law upon health and safety is becoming ever more punitive. Traditionally it had been considered regulatory rather than penal legislation designed to prevent tragedy not punish transgressors. The maximum penalty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 was a fine proportionate to the means of the offender until very recently. For the first time ever under the Health and Safety Offences Act 2008 an offending employee can face custody of up to two years. We can all generally support the principles of the legislation but the removal of a person’s liberty is so serious that it is imperative that cases are defended with vigour.”
One Inner Temple Lane, 26th June 2013
Source: www.1itl.com
Speech by The Hon. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave
“Piper 25” Oil & Gas UK Conference, 19th June 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A farm has been fined £80,000 after a young farm worker was killed when the tractor she was driving overturned in a sloping field.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A school where a pupil fell from a climbing wall and broke his heel during a PE lesson has been fined.”
BBC News, 10th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A police force paid out £8,000 in compensation to a member of staff who was hurt tripping over a pile of paper in a corridor, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Tens of thousands of lower risk businesses will no longer be subject to regular health and safety inspections by local authorities.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain’s worst football disaster.
Never-before-broadcast footage of the FA Cup semi-final in which 96 Liverpool fans died reveals a catastrophic failure by the emergency services, how lives might have been saved and how subsequent inquiries were misled.
And a former home secretary and former police chiefs are put on the spot about why a succession of official investigations left the truth hidden for a generation.”
BBC Panorama, 23rd May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Taylor v Chief Constable of Hampshire Police [2013] EWCA Civ 496; [2013] WLR (D) 171
“The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 were engaged with respect to risks from sharp edges in a claim for damages for personal injury once such a risk was shown to be more than de minimis, and the employer had to provide suitable equipment to protect against that risk unless working methods could provide equal or more effective protection.”
WLR Daily, 9th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Government is to remove the Employment Tribunal’s power to make recommendations to employers that go beyond the specifics of a particular discrimination claim, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Taxpayers were last night facing a legal bill of at least £100,000 after a long-standing compensation row involving a female police officer who cut her thumb while on duty.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A government scheme designed to speed payments to mesothelioma sufferers could leave them thousands of pounds out of pocket and will not help other asbestos victims, according to claimant personal injury lawyers.”
Litigation Futures, 9th May 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“A new law intended to ensure insurance firms pay compensation when employers’ paperwork is lost will apply only to some cancer sufferers, and they will get less than expected.”
The Independent, 5th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lord Justice Goldring says hearing should be held near where bereaved families live, but not too close to Liverpool.”
The Guardian, 2nd May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A horsewoman who appeared in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pageant exaggerated
injuries she suffered in a fall to try to win a big compensation pay-out, a
court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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