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Successful “reasonably practicable” defence

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 18 2008

Hatton Traffic Management Limited (HTM) were cleared of charges under s2(1) Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and Regulation 3 Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 following the deaths of two employees engaged in resurfacing work on the A66 road in County Durham

HSE injury statistics

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 18 2008

Recently released figures show that the number of construction site fatalities in 20078 fell slightly, with 72 construction workers killed on site, as opposed to 79 in 20067

Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 29 2007

The Health and Safety Executive is about to launch the new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, which will combine the existing Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 and Construction (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996

Not so elementary my dear Watson

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 16 2008

In this case, RPC acted for Comag, the successful first defendant

Burden of proof on prosecution

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 31 2008

In proceedings brought under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 s.2(1) and s.3(1), the prosecution only had to prove that the result described in those sections had not been achieved or prevented

FSA encourages company nominees for senior management roles into withdrawing applications

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 1 2009

The FSA's more interventionist role in scrutinising new senior management jobs at large financial services firms has forced firms to drop nearly one in ten (9) of applicants as the FSA had indicated that they may reject applicants they do not approve of says Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), the City law firm

Acas annual report attributes increase in unfair dismissal claims to the recession

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 27 2009

Acas (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) has published its annual report and accounts for the year 200809

Review of the default retirement age (DRA) brought forward to 2010

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 27 2009

Due to the ‘change in economic circumstances’ since the DRA was introduced, the Government has announced that it will bring forward its review from 2011 to 2010

Legislation

  • RPC
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 27 2009

Following the approval of the revised Temporary Agency Workers Directive by the European Parliament in October 2008, EU countries are now required to incorporate the provisions of the Directive in their national law

Consultation on passing ‘whistle-blowing’ claim forms to regulatory bodies

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 27 2009

At present, employment tribunals can hear employment claims arising from whistle-blowing yet cannot make any assessment or take any action on the issues of the underlying allegation which was the subject of the whistle-blowing

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