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A construction company has been found guilty of breaching section 4 (1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, fined £400,000 and ordered to pay legal costs of £1,534 after one of its employees fell from a height and broke his pelvis and arm.
A highways contractor has come under scrutiny after one of it’s subcontractors, who was employed to replace a traffic light pole, was electrocuted. The Health and Safety Executive decided to investigate the firm after the employee was severely burned in a workplace accident.
On Wednesday 26th April, the Devonshire Hotel in Liverpool will be hosting The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) seminar, “Dancing with Neurons”. In an industry that sees first-hand how much of an impact on life these injuries can have, and how the rehabilitation aids our client’s recovery, we are thrilled to sponsor this event.
A couple are battling over the assets in their divorce, in particular, a family holiday home in in the village of Cornamona, County Galway and have racked up legal costs so far of £800,000 on their divorce proceedings.
Medway Hospital has once again been thrust into the limelight after it was revealed that a patient had been sent home with what turns out to be a fractured spine. She was taken to the A&E department, via a land ambulance, after a bad fall down the stairs and was X-rayed.
A company was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive after an accident was reported at one of its sites where by two workers received serious burns.
A well-known bakery has been fined £2 million and ordered to pay costs of £19,609.28 after they pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulation 2005 following a workplace accident.
The government today has announced the 12 week consultation for fixed fees in clinical negligence claims with a damages value of up to £25k. Whilst this is clearly going to be inevitable, it is alarming that the news reports continue to paint the claimant lawyers as unscrupulous!
The Health and Safety Executive have prosecuted a construction company after one of it’s workers fell from a height onto a concrete floor. The worker sustained life threatening injuries and was fortunate not to have been killed as a result of the company’s negligence.
This is one of the most frequently asked questions for family lawyers when a client contemplating divorce. Like most urban myths, there is a grain of truth in it, but like almost every other legal question, the answer is “it depends”.
