Jennifer Travers
Dentons
Articles
Successful appeal against health and safety fine in the Court of Appeal
United Kingdom - August 10 2017 Tata Steel UK recently secured a significant reduction of a health and safety fine by appealing the fine to the Court of Appeal. It is understood to…
Tesco fined £8 million for environmental and safety offences
United Kingdom - August 2 2017 In June 2017, Tesco was fined £8 million for breaches of environmental and safety law. The prosecution followed an incident in July 2014 at a petrol…
How are you responding to environmental incidents?
United Kingdom - June 15 2017 In March the Munich offices of international law firm Jones Day, were raided by prosecutors in the VW emissions investigation. This breach of the law…
Record fine under sentencing guidelines
United Kingdom - January 17 2017 Southern Water is the latest company to receive a heavy fine for environmental offences, following a pollution incident in Kent in June 2012 where…
New Health and Safety Sentencing Guideline comes into Force
United Kingdom - January 28 2016 The definitive guideline on Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene Offences (the Guideline) was published on…
