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LEGAL COMMENT: Court of Appeal rules against Serious Fraud Office in landmark legal privilege case
In a case watched closely by both the legal and corporate industries, mining group ENRC has won a legal victory against the Serious Fraud Office..
Workplace wellbeing
Until now the focus of workplace health and safety has always been on safeguarding employees against risk of physical harm.
Weightmans boosts risk and compliance offering with new consultant
National law firm Weightmans has appointed leading Risk and Compliance expert Andrea Cohen as Consultant to Weightmans Compli...
New ruling on the service failure test in clinical cases
Healthcare Regulatory Partner Simon Turner examines Weightmans’ recent Court of Appeal case striking down the test applied by the Health Service…
Focus on… Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
Employers may at times feel as though the duty for safeguarding an individual’s health and safety lies solely with them. This is not always the case…
Trust fined £330,000 for falls deaths
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust received fines in respect of five breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Drayton Manor incident - comments from Weightmans Health and Safety expert
An investigation is underway after a young girl died after falling from a ride at a Staffordshire theme park.
Root cause analysis investigation reports
A root cause analysis investigation is an investigation undertaken to establish the originating causes which have led to a death or an avoidable…
