News and Prosecutions
Construction contractor fined over unplumbed toilet
17 March 2010
Lack of building site toilet and washing facilities has led to a £3215 penalty for the contractor.
Lead paint poisoning lands builders in court
17 March 2010
A building firm has been prosecuted after two workers suffered acute lead poisoning during a £800,000 project to restore a 19th century estate in Perthshire in Scotland.
Steelmaker Corus UK in court again
3 March 2010
Steel giant Corus UK has been successfully prosecuted for safety offences
Cement factory’s emissions posed cancer risk
23 February 2010
A cement factory operator has received one of the highest ever fines for environmental offences after it admitted a series of failures that potentially put the public at increased risk…
Corporate killing fines tariff published
10 February 2010
The Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) has published its final guideline for judges on penalties for corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death.
Articles
Down to penalties
12 January 2010
The revised proposals for guidance to judges on how to set corporate manslaughter and fatality fines has polarised opinion, reports David Bergman.
Only human
1 May 2009
Early in the morning of 22 May 2006, a senior lifeguard at a Total Fitness gym in the Wirral mistakenly added chlorine granules to an acid tank rather than the…
Life of PI
3 April 2009
Jocelyn Dorrell finds out the best ways to deal with employee personal injury claims.
Deterrent? What deterrent? Part 2
2 April 2009
Only the smallest
The penalties imposed on the 10 convicted companies were all fines, ranging from £4,000 to £90,000, with no consistency in the reasons for why a particular level was…
Deterrent, what deterrent? Part 1
2 April 2009
It is now just over 10 years since the Court of Appeal set out criteria in its Howe1 judgment to help magistrates and judges impose stiffer fines on health and…
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