UK Coal fined over miner Ian Cameron’s death – BBC News
“UK Coal has been fined £200,000 after it pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches over the death of a miner at a North Yorkshire pit.”
BBC News, 18th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: health & safety
Ambulance staff left brain injury man for 45 mins due to lunchbreak – Daily Telegraph
“Ambulance staff left an elderly man who had fallen over and sustained brain damage untreated for three quarters of an hour because paramedics were on a lunch break, an inquest has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Domestic and Personal Injury Newsletter – Thirty Nine Essex Street
Domestic and Personal Injury Newsletter (PDF)
Thirty Nine Essex Street, June 2012
Source: www.39essex.com
Laying down the law on nanotechnology – The Guardian
“Regulating nanotechnology is fraught with difficulties. Current environmental law simply doesn’t apply on the nano-scale.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Employers’ liability for third party harassment to go as part of discrimination law changes – OUT-LAW.com
“Rules making companies liable for harassment of their employees by third parties is one of a number of ‘unnecessary’ discrimination regulations that could be repealed in a drive to remove employment law related ‘red tape’, the Government has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Fire service watch manager cleared of firefighter deaths – The Guardian
“A fire service manager accused of the manslaughter of four firefighters killed in a warehouse blaze has been found not guilty after a judge directed a jury to acquit him.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
CoA ruling makes parent companies liable for subsidiaries’ health and safety – Law Society’s Gazette
“Parent companies have a responsibility for the health and safety of their subsidiaries’ employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled in a groundbreaking case.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Southeastern trains prosecuted for train overshooting station by more than two miles – The Independent
“A rail company is to be prosecuted after one of its trains overshot a station by nearly two-and-a-half miles.”
The Independent, 17th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Gas fitter Andrew Hartley jailed over Zoe Anderson’s death – BBC News
“A gas fitter has been jailed for three years for the manslaughter of a woman who died of carbon monoxide poisoning.”
BBC News, 17th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Making the most of stress claims – Zenith Chambers
“At a time when 1 in 4 workers are now affected by work-related stress, it is unsurprising that lawyers too are seeing more occupational stress claims than ever before. Kate provides some timely guidance on how to sort the wheat from the chaff and considers whether McLennan v Hartford [2012] EWHC 346 amounts to a change in the landscape or more of the same.”
Full story (PDF)
Zenith Chambers, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
Health and safety overkill to be challenged by official body – The Guardian
“An official voice to combat misuses of health and safety legislation is being launched by ministers.”
The Guardian, 11th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Racing circuit groundsman awarded £2m damages – The Independent
“A racing circuit groundsman who was brain-damaged in a freak work accident has been awarded more than £2 million damages.”
The Independent, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Asbestos: court ruling opens way for insurance claims – BBC News
“The UK Supreme Court has made a ruling which could allow thousands of insurance claims by families of people who died after exposure to asbestos.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BA stewardess wins £280,000 damages – The Independent
“A British Airways stewardess who has been unable to return to work since a metal canister fell on her head while on duty is to receive £280,000 damages.”
The Independent, 26th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Families win landmark ruling on £600m asbestos compensation – The Independent
“Thousands of families whose relatives were killed by asbestos cancers will win a landmark compensation victory this week, sources have told The Independent on Sunday. The Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday that insurers who offered cover at the time victims inhaled the deadly fibres will have to pay compensation.”
The Independent, 25th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
UK Coal guilty over miner’s death – BBC News
“UK Coal has pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches over the death of a miner at a North Yorkshire colliery.”
BBC News, 16th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Network Rail fined £1m over girls’ level crossing deaths – BBC News
“Network Rail has been fined £1m after admitting health and safety breaches over the deaths of two girls at an Essex level crossing. Friends Olivia Bazlinton, 14, and Charlotte Thompson, 13, were hit by a train in December 2005 as they crossed the railway line at Elsenham station and died instantly.”
BBC News, 15th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Whitehead v Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement – WLR Daily
Whitehead v Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement: [2012] EWCA Civ 263; [2012] WLR (D) 65
“Reasonable practicability was, at least in part, relevant to the assessment of both limbs of the duty on an employer, under regulation 12(1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, to take measures to ensure that the exposure of a person using work equipment to any risk to his health or safety from a regulation 12(3) hazard was either prevented, or, where that was not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled.”
WLR Daily, 8th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Council faces £70,000 legal bill over warden health and safety sign injury – Daily Telegraph
“A council faces having to pay out tens of thousands of pounds after a park warden fell and injured himself while putting up health and safety signs.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2012
Source: www.telegrph.co.uk
Corgi Hosiery fined over factory asbestos removal – BBC News
“A company in Carmarthenshire has been fined £25,000 after being found guilty of failing to protect its employees from asbestos.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
