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