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As an extension of the duty of site owners to people who enter their site as trespassers, Lovell Partnerships have been fined £75k after a seven-year-old gained access to a flat roof of a development via scaffolding which had been left in place for too long at a development in Tyne and Wear
Since the Sentencing Guidelines were issued earlier this year, the approach of the courts to sentencing in prosecutions involving fatalities has been of interest
The case of Yuanda (UK) Co Ltd v WW Gear Construction Limited (2010 EWHC 720 (TCC) 13 April 2010) provides a stark reminder that companies need to take into account the Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 when setting interest rates for late payment
