Health & Safety

Articles

16 Nov 2012

Shifting the health and safety burden

Ian Pennock isn't convinced by the government's 'proposed changes to health and safety in the 'Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

14 Sept 2012

Update | Health & safety

Zahra Nanji revisits the government's new scheme to recover costs incurred through health and safety breaches and proposals to introduce European-style deregulation

19 Jul 2012

APIL welcomes change of heart on adventure regulator

Health and safety not 'a straitjacket which prevents children from taking risks'

28 May 2012

Argos and Homebase can reclaim toxic sofa damages

Retailers allowed to claim back millions of pounds from producer of toxic anti-mould chemical

21 May 2012

Health and safety update: asbestos exposure, RIDDOR, occupational health

Zahra Nanji reviews 'new regulations on 'asbestos exposure, 'the HSE's 'fee for 'intervention' scheme 'and the latest chapter 'in the government's 'war against health 'and safety legislation

11 May 2012

When a parent company may be liable in negligence for the acts of its subsidiary

The ruling in Chandler has established that a parent company may be liable for breaches of health and 'safety laws by a subsidiary without the need to consider lifting the corporate veil. 'Alan McKenna reviews 'the court's reasoning 'while Robert Weir QC 'and Vijay Ganapathy assess the circumstances 'and extent to which liability may attach as a result

25 Apr 2012

Djanogly spares mesothelioma victims from Jackson reforms

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly told the Commons yesterday that the government was prepared to spare mesothelioma cases from the Jackson report's ban on recoverability of success fees and insurance premiums.

23 Apr 2012

Trigger ramifications

The effects of the Supreme Court ruling in the employers' liability 'trigger' case are likely to reach further than mesothelioma claims to other asbestos disease sufferers and even beyond, suggests Daniel Easton