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’.
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’…
The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that insurers who offered cover for negligent employers at the time when victims inhaled deadly asbestos fibres will have to pay compensation.
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…
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…
A Dartford man has secured six figure damages from Dartford and Gravesham NHS Hospital Trust following the birth of his son and the tragic death of his wife in 2007.
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…
68 year-old Michael Ward from Enfield, Middlesex – who slipped on ice at his place of work – has been awarded £31,000 in damages by the High Court. Metroline of Harrow had denied liability.
It could be argued that media ridicule of Health & Safety actually risks making our lives more dangerous. Back in March, Marcus Weatherby took a look at our early steps towards reform…
