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Update on plans for private companies to be held accountable for care home failings
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- December 21 2012
Plans will be published in the new year for a new law that will make directors and private companies criminally liable for abuses that take place at care and nursing homes that they fund or operate
Health Legal Update: Private companies to be held accountable for care home failings
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- November 30 2012
The Care Services minister (Norman Lamb) has stated his intention to make private companies responsible for the operation of care homes accountable if these care homes are shown to be failing in the standard of care they are providing
Health legal update: corporate manslaughter Lion Steel conviction
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- July 27 2012
On 20 July, Lion Steel Equipment Limited became only the third company in the UK to be convicted of corporate manslaughter and was fined 480,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of 84,000
The death of living wills?
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- June 26 2012
A court ruling that an anorexic woman should be force-fed could render living wills invalid, barristers have said
Elderly care cuts and the Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- June 26 2012
The future care of thousands of elderly people currently being looked after in their homes is under threat due to what the British Red Cross has termed “dangerous and short-sighted” cuts
Transport Sector Update: General - Northern Ireland: first corporate manslaughter conviction results in largest ever fine
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- June 14 2012
The first successful conviction in Northern Ireland under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (“the Corporate Manslaughter Act”) has resulted in a record fine of £187,500 and a costs order of £13,000
Chandler v Cape case (asbestos)
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- June 7 2012
The Court of Appeal gives guidance on the potential for parent companies and organisations to be liable for health and safety breaches by their subsidiaries
Health and safety responsibilities of parent companies
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 17 2012
The Court of Appeal gives guidance on the potential for parent companies and organisations to be liable for health and safety breaches by their subsidiaries
Northern Ireland: First corporate manslaughter conviction results in largest ever fine
- Eversheds LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 9 2012
The first successful conviction in Northern Ireland under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (“the Corporate Manslaughter Act”) has resulted in a record fine of £187,500 and a costs order of £13,000
TMT Legal Update: British businesses lead the way for addressing health and safety concerns but is there a general lack of collaboration in Europe on Health and Safety Enforcement?
- Eversheds LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- May 2 2012
In April, the European Agency for Occupational Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) revealed data that suggests that workers in the UK are more confident than workers from anywhere else in Europe that health and safety issues would be addressed once they have been raised with their employer
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