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Monkey Business

07 Mar 2024

Measures have been signed into law this week to ban keeping primates as pets. The legislation brings in a licensing scheme setting strict rules to ensure that only private keepers who meet new welfare and licensing standards can keep primates, delivering on a government manifesto commitment and…

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Improving road safety with cycle helmets

10 Oct 2023

The debate on introducing legislation for the mandatory use of cycle helmets continues. According to the latest statistics from the DfT, there were 16,294 reported road traffic accidents involving pedal cyclists in 2020. Pedal cyclist casualties in 2020 stood at 12,472, with 141 fatalities, 4,…

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£3m fine for waste management company after two deaths

10 Oct 2023

A waste management firm has been fined a total of £3 million following the deaths of two workers in separate incidents. Michael Atkin and Mark Wheatley died following incidents in 2019 and 2020 respectively. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated both incidents and…

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Environment Agency Seeks Tougher Penalties on Polluters

18 Aug 2023

The Environment Agency is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of numerous regulatory and criminal offences. As an alternative to criminal prosecution, financial sanctions can be imposed under the guidelines of the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010. In an announcement…

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HSE publishes work-related fatality figures

18 Aug 2023

On the 6 July 2023 the HSE published the work related fatality figures. They report that one hundred and thirty-five workers were killed in work-related incidents in Great Britain in the last year. The industries with the highest deaths were construction (45), agriculture, forestry, and fishing (…

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Costs success

18 Aug 2023

Many personal injury claims are dealt with under a fixed costs regime, with many more due to be brought into an extended fixed recoverable costs regime from the 1 October 2023. This limits the ability for defendants to challenge claimants' costs. That said there are still opportunities to make…

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HRA Article 2 and its application in R v Blackpool and Fylde 2023

18 Aug 2023

The Human Rights Act 1998 ('HRA') explores that an Article 2 Inquest requires the state to carry out an enhanced investigation into the death of an individual, taking into the issue the wider circumstances that surround an individual's death. It is most common when the individual who dies is…

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David Lloyd Leisure Club fined £2.5m after three-year-old drowns

10 Aug 2023

David Lloyd Leisure Club Limited has pleaded guilty to a health and safety offence after a three-year-old boy accidentally drowned in a pool at the firm's leisure club in Moortown, Leeds in April 2018 . The company was fined £2.55m and ordered to pay £258,000 in costs at Leeds Crown…

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