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14 Maternity Trusts to be Scrutinised as Part of National Investigation
Kirsty Allen
2 February 2022
Review of recent corporate manslaughter cases: Deco-Pak, Bosley Mill, Aster Healthcare
This blogs considers the recent corporate manslaughter conviction of Deco-Pak and two other recent corporate manslaughter cases, Bosley Mill and Aster Healthcare and what they tell us about the current approach to this offence. In January 2022 a garden supplies firm, Deco-Pak was found guilty of corporate manslaughter following a fatal accident at the Deco-Pak premises in Hipperholme, West Yorkshire on 14 April 2017.
7 January 2022
Care Home sentencing a salutary reminder of the importance of fire safety responsibilities
On 5 January 2022, Bupa pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Bupa were ordered to pay a fine of £937,500 and prosecution costs of £104,000. This is the highest ever fine imposed for fire safety breaches under the Fire Safety Order in the UK.
23 December 2021
Environmental Law Quarterly Update - Q4 2021
This quarterly environmental law update provides a summary of news stories published in the period October – December 2021.
16 December 2021
Health and Safety - personal liability for directors operating in the built environment
The built environment presents health and safety risks like no other sector. Whether it be the risk of falls from height, hazardous substances, trapped by items collapsing or overturning, fire or moving vehicles there are a wide range of hazards that need to be managed from the outset. Directors can be held personally liable when health and safety duties are breached. In this blog we explore the scope of personal liability for directors in the built environment.
6 December 2021
Are builders ‘gaming the system’ to flout fire safety legislation?
Last week Assistant Commissioner Fire Safety, Paul Jennings of the London Fire Brigade stated that developers are ‘gaming the system’, looking to reach only the minimum standards required for building safety and ‘bending the rules’. AC Jennings explained that we are not seeing the cultural change within the built environment that we would expect, following the tragic events of the Grenfell Tower fire and the subsequent Hackitt review.