Health & Safety

Articles

30 Jan 2012

Health and safety update

The government should be promoting the protection health and safety legislation affords all parties – not irresponsibly eroding its reputation, argues Zahra Nanji

19 Sept 2011

Update: health and safety

Zahra Nanji explores several cases on employers' duties

12 Sept 2011

Sweet tangerine

The Court of Appeal's ruling on the foreseeability of risk may represent a softening of the position in favour of defendants in health and safety prosecutions, but at least it provides much-needed clarification of the law, say Gareth McManus and Mark Balysz

20 Jun 2011

You will go to the ball

Mediocre food, talking shop and terrible speeches – why are barristers so keen on work parties? Felix figures it out

13 Jun 2011

Father secures return of abducted child

Supreme Court reverses assumption that Hague Convention countries have effective protection measures

31 May 2011

Update: health and safety

Zahra Nanji considers how the Young report and its offshoots have been affecting case law

9 May 2011

Factory fit

Don't be fooled by the Supreme Court's common sense approach in Baker – trouble may yet be afoot, says Robert O'Leary

18 Apr 2011

Safety is not an 'unchanging concept'

Lord Mance has ruled that whether a factory is safe should be assessed by the “standards of the time” and there is “no such thing as an unchanging concept of safety”.