Health and Safety

Advising individuals with 'properly interested person' status in connection with their role during an inquest following a fatal incident.

Advising directors of large retail organisations on their health and safety obligations following investigations into warehouse incidents, food safety breaches and managing occupational health and tripping hazards within their stores.

Advising a CEO on the creation of a new gym business and the safe use of smart gym equipment.

Advising individuals in respect of investigations relating to a return to the workplaces/hybrid working within COVID-19 secure premises and practices, including sole practitioners and employees.

Representing a construction director who was prosecuted for failing to report a health and safety incident (resulting in the amputation of a worker's leg), in the first UK case of an individual receiving a prison sentence for failure to report.

Advising a UK local authority on their statutory obligations in respect of serious incidents and fatalities in light of recent counter-terrorism threats.

Advising large UK corporates in connection with internal workplace and external criminal regulatory HSE and fire authority investigations, as well as occupational health and wellbeing procedures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advising a maritime port facility in respect of a HSE investigation resulting from a worker falling at height from a docked vessel.

Representing a developer client in a prosecution based on breaches of the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 following a building collapse, which resulted in property damage and injury to a neighbouring resident.

Acting for a building owner/director of a managing agent company defending a fire authority prosecution in respect of a multi-occupied, mixed use high-rise building with a number of fire safety deficiencies, thereby placing residents and members of the public at risk of personal injury or death in the event of fire.

Acting for a large developer client in connection with a police investigation (Rural Crimes Division) following the destruction of a protected animal habitat during the progress of their development.

Acting for a haulage company in respect of a HSE investigation following a trailer air bag explosion, resulting in significant facial injuries and burns to a work experience student.
 

Advising a UK restaurant chain in respect of a local authority investigation following several customers ingesting dangerous chemicals, mistakenly served as alcohol.