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The rise of the compensation culture

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 13 2012

One of the significant reasons for the current government’s desire to change health & safety law arises out of what is referred to as the “compensation culture”

Sentencing

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 15 2012

In the recent case of Scottish Sea Farms Ltd and Logan Inglis Ltd v Her Majesty’s Advocate, two companies appealed to the High Court of Justiciary seeking to have fines (imposed as a result of health & safety breaches) reduced

Time limit to appeal against an enforcement notice

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 1 2011

As most of you will know the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004 allow the recipient of an enforcement notice to lodge a note of appeal with the Employment Tribunal within 21 days of service of the notice

Company guilty of corporate manslaughter

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 1 2011

On 15 February, a Jury returned a guilty verdict in the first prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act