With Workers’ Memorial Day in mind, partner Marcus Weatherby – in a considered piece for Employment Law magazine - looks critically at the Government’s current misguided attack on ‘excessive health and safety provision’.
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Workers Memorial Day: ‘Remember the dead – fight for the living.’
With Workers’ Memorial Day (28th April) approaching, Partner Marcus Weatherby is critical of the Government’s current misguided attack on what it sees as ‘excessive health and safety provision’…
Supreme Court prevents asbestos insurers from wriggling out of workplace compensation payments.
Partner Marcus Weatherby – who has a particular interest in industrial disease claims – is delighted with today’s landmark Supreme Court ruling regarding workplace victims of asbestos exposure…
Sweeping Health and Safety under the carpet
Partner Marcus Weatherby laments the government cuts that look like a move back to the ‘bad old days’ in attitudes towards health and safety…
We never stop fighting the injustice of industrial disease
Jack Waller - from our London office – reflects on our ongoing struggle against industrial disease as historic exposure to asbestos dust continues to make life – and death – a misery for those afflicted…
Fear not, Prime Minister – the health and safety monster doesn’t exist
With the Prime Minister recently seeming to jump aboard the ‘H&S-knockers’ band-wagon, personal injury specialist Jack Waller – from our London office – urges him not to believe everything he might read in the papers…