Health & Safety

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Update | Health and safety: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Zahra Nanji questions the repercussions of a late amendment to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, which places the onus on employees to prove negligence 'where an injury occurs at work

Fixed fees and portal for mesothelioma claims

Consultation to start next spring

Shifting the health and safety burden

Ian Pennock isn't convinced by the government's 'proposed changes to health and safety in the 'Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Update | Health & safety

Zahra Nanji revisits the government's new scheme to recover costs incurred through health and safety breaches and proposals to introduce European-style deregulation

APIL welcomes change of heart on adventure regulator

Health and safety not 'a straitjacket which prevents children from taking risks'

Argos and Homebase can reclaim toxic sofa damages

Retailers allowed to claim back millions of pounds from producer of toxic anti-mould chemical

Health and safety update: asbestos exposure, RIDDOR, occupational health

Zahra Nanji reviews 'new regulations on 'asbestos exposure, 'the HSE's 'fee for 'intervention' scheme 'and the latest chapter 'in the government's 'war against health 'and safety legislation

When a parent company may be liable in negligence for the acts of its subsidiary

The ruling in Chandler has established that a parent company may be liable for breaches of health and 'safety laws by a subsidiary without the need to consider lifting the corporate veil. 'Alan McKenna reviews 'the court's reasoning 'while Robert Weir QC 'and Vijay Ganapathy assess the circumstances 'and extent to which liability may attach as a result