Health and Safety

Health and Safety Cases

Defending a power station developer following a serious construction incident.

Advising a processing plant in an investigation by the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

Responding to an urgent request for independent employee advice and representation at interviews following a multiple fatality. This included representation of an employee arrested for gross negligence manslaughter.

Advising a major transport company after an employee had been arrested for gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a customer.

Advising a train operator on the response to ORR investigation following fatality of a sub-contractor.

Advising a construction client on the response following a serious injury to a sub-contractor on the Crossrail project.

Defending a fertiliser company following a fatal incident at one of its sites.

Advising a high tech/research company during an investigation and prosecution following an explosion in its research facility.

Advising a food distribution company prosecuted for a failure to comply with an improvement notice.

Advising a major chemicals company on a range of investigations and prosecutions following incidents involving a failure of a permit to work scheme, storage of materials and employee compliance issues.

Inquests and Inquiries

Acting for the train operating companies at the inquests which followed the derailments at Potters Bar and Grayrigg.

Representation of a contractor that provides custody services to the police at a number of inquests, following deaths in police custody. These have involved a large number of witnesses and have been between three and twenty days in duration.

The Redfern Inquiry was a government sponsored inquiry into the analysis of human tissue taken from individuals who had worked in the nuclear industry. We provided detailed written submissions and representation at the inquiry hearings for the government body that was engaged in this research.