27 Jan 2022
It is nigh on impossible to visit the website of any reasonable-sized construction company nowadays without seeing words like "sustainability", "ESG", and "social footprint". Historically used as mere buzz words to drive online traffic, environmental issues are increasingly…
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26 Jan 2022
The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk) come into force on the 6 April 2022. The duty to provide PPE remains the same, but the 2022 regulations widen the scope of which workers an employer has to provide PPE for, to now include not just…
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26 Jan 2022
A care home business, run by private health care provider BUPA, has been fined £1.04m after a resident died in a fire while smoking at one of its care homes. BUPA Care Services (ANS) Ltd was fined £937,500 for fire safety failings and ordered to pay £104,000 prosecution costs at…
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26 Jan 2022
HC-One Limited has been fined following an incident when a resident choked to death on a jam doughnut. A resident of Orchard Care Home, Lychgate Road, Tullibody, was given a piece of jam doughnut to eat on 7 August 2019. The resident had previously suffered from a stroke and had been diagnosed with…
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19 Jan 2022
Staffordshire County Council has been prosecuted for failing to inspect and maintain trees on a public footpath, following the death of a member of the public. The Court heard how, on 3 October 2019, a man walking his dog on the Isabel Trail in Stafford was struck and killed by part of a falling…
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19 Jan 2022
To some observers, civil claims for compensation for often relatively trivial breaches of a person's data, represent the opportunity for some legal firms to replace diminishing whiplash or holiday sickness claims with a new source of work. One potential avenue for claimant firms looking to diversify…
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19 Jan 2022
A construction company and its groundworks contractor have been fined after unsafe excavation work left a worker with serious burns to his hand and arm. A groundworker was preparing the ground to install a post to carry an Automatic Number Plate Recognition Camera (ANPRC) on 2 August 2018.…
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19 Jan 2022
In a blow to Defendants, the UK Supreme Court in the case of Ho v Adelekun (2021) UKSC 45 unanimously agreed with the appellant Claimant that a Defendant cannot automatically off set 'costs against costs' under the Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) regime. QOCS applies to most…
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19 Jan 2022
In the current situation when schools are being advised to open windows to ensure adequate ventilation to avoid Covid-19 transmission, this case is a useful reminder of issues that can arise. Forbes successfully defended this claim on the basis that there was a safe system of work, and that the…
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19 Jan 2022
Mr Rigby brought a claim against Wigan Council alleging that he had tripped and fallen as a result of a significant pothole in a road. The matter was listed for a two-day trial but all came crashing down for the claimant before lunch on the first day. His first problem was that two of his…
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