Health & Safety

Articles

5 Jun 2024

Looking back in time: the duty of employers to protect their employees from the dangers of asbestos

Jim Hester from Parklane Plowden Chambers dissects White v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Cuthbert v Taylor Woodrow [2024] EWCA Civ 244

15 Jan 2024

The causes and remedies of England's health and social care

Lisa Morgan says the system needs an system overhaul

15 Aug 2023

Permission granted by the Court of Appeal in tactile paving challenge

Bindmans' client and disability rights campaigner Sarah Leadbetter has been granted permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal in her ongoing legal challenge against the Secretary of State for Transport.

9 Aug 2023

First collective action brought against water company for overcharging

A legal claim has been made against Severn Trent Water, which is accused of abusing its dominant market position by underreporting the extent of pollution discharge and overcharging customers as a result.

27 Jul 2023

Draft anti-terror bill should focus on venue risk not capacity

The Home Affairs Committee says the bill as proposed would mean small venues having to implement costly new anti-terror measures while larger events fall out of scope.

28 Jun 2023

High Court confirms three fresh inquests in Gosport War Memorial Hospital case

The inquests will take place into the deaths of Arthur Denis Brian Cunningham, Gladys Mabel Richards and Robert Wilson who all died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire in 1998.

19 Apr 2023

The Equality Act and mental health in the workplace

Laura Skinner provides a view on the importance of reasonable adjustments in the workplace

17 Aug 2022

Infected blood scandal victims to receive £1m interim payment

Victims or bereaved partners must be registered with any of the four UK infected blood support schemes