News & Events
News & Events
Oliver Powell, together with Claire Rawle, Partner Blake Morgan LLP, were both invited to speak at UK Harbour Masters Association Autumn 2017 Seminar. Their talk, entitled ‘Health & Safety – the cost of getting it wrong’, drew upon their considerable experience of investigations and prosecutions in health and safety matters. Other speakers at the seminar included: Captain Forkanul Quader of Maritime & Coastguard Agency; Jon Beckett and Miles Featherstone of Port of London Authority; Andrew Kelly of Department for Transport; Helen McCormick of CTRL Marine Solutions Ltd; Scott Baker of Svitzer UK; Caroline Price of Royal Haskoning DHV; Steve Guest of Kongsberg Norcontrol Ltd; and Brett Ward of Fendercare Ltd. The seminar was attended by approximately 150 people, including port…
News 22 Nov, 2017
We are delighted to announce that Outer Temple was awarded ‘Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Set of the Year’ and that James Leonard won the ‘Health & Safety Junior of the Year’ Award at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2017. We are proud of our barristers and clerks and their well-deserved accomplishments. The Chambers UK Bar Awards ceremony was held last night at The London Hilton. Further details are available here.
News 27 Oct, 2017
We are delighted to have been shortlisted in Legal Week’s British Legal Awards 2017 – Chambers of the Year category. The British Legal Awards hosted by Legal Week in association with The City of London Law Society, takes place at the end of the LegalWeek Connect, and is due to be attended by 1,000 lawyers. All 29 categories have been carefully chosen to reflect the ever-complex and challenging work of business lawyers at law firms, within legal departments and at the Bar. Key awards this year include The City of London Law Society Lifetime Achievement Award, Chambers of the Year, Law Firm of the Year, General Counsel of the Year, Editor’s Award: Law Firm Leader of the Year and the Legal…
News 20 Oct, 2017
We are delighted to announce that Chambers has been shortlisted for ‘Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Set of the Year’ in the 2017 Chambers UK Bar Awards. In addition, Andrew Short QC has been shortlisted for ‘Employment Silk of the Year’ and James Leonard is listed for ‘Health and Safety Junior of the Year’. The 2017 Chambers UK Bar Awards will be held on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
News 30 Aug, 2017
Tim Green has been successful in a precedent setting adjudication concerning the accreditation by the Environment Agency of a waste reprocessor pursuant to the Producer Responsibility Regulations. The Regulations provide for a scheme whereby waste producers are legally obliged to demonstrate that they have recycled waste by the purchase of certificates called Producer Responsibility Notes (“PRNs”). PRNs may only be sold by waste reprocessors which have satisfied the Agency that various environmental standards have been met, including that the reprocessor has a viable business plan. Tim persuaded the adjudicator that the Agency was correct to refuse to accredit a reprocessor in a precedent setting use of the Agency’s powers under the Regulations. Tim Green has been consistently recommended by the…
News 22 Aug, 2017
The Health and Safety Lawyers Association (“HSLA”) spring seminar programme attracted over 150 delegates across three separate seminars this year. James Leonard, Paul Rogers, Tim Green and Oliver Powell of Outer Temple Chambers provided key talks across the three seminars. They addressed the impact of the new sentencing guidelines and the increased prosecution by the HSE of individuals, to audiences in Bristol, London and Birmingham, with a Glasgow seminar scheduled for June. Links to the slides used in the Birmingham event on 25 April can be found here and here.
Events 3 May, 2017
Ben Compton QC and Paul Rogers represented Claire Gordon, a project manager for window manufacturing company Drawn Metal Ltd, in her recent eight week trial for manslaughter by gross negligence and for breaches of section 7 HSWA 1974. She was acquitted of both charges. A set of window frames weighing in excess of 600kg had been delivered and left on the pavement on Hanover Street, by Hanover Square in central London, when they fell and tragically killed a pedestrian Amanda Telfer. The prosecution had alleged Claire Gordon had failed to take steps to ensure the frames were transported, secured and stored safely. The jury rejected the prosecution assertions against her in unanimous not guilty verdicts after three and a half days of deliberations.…
News 27 Mar, 2017
In an article written as a guest of solicitors DWF, Tim Green provides a guide to a recent Court of Appeal decision that has important consequences for companies and their officers facing restraint and confiscation in respect of environmental offending. The judgment in R v Powell and Westwood [2016] EWCA Crim 1043 suggests a significant and welcome narrowing of the scope for confiscation in environmental enforcement. Powell and Westwood is thus essential reading for environmental lawyers.
News 10 Feb, 2017
On 16 December 2016, HHJ Pini QC sitting at Lincoln Crown Court issued fines and costs in excess of £2.5m. These were in respect of health and safety offences admitted by a the Principal Contractor and two sub-contractors working on deep excavations in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. The case was unusual because of the complex contractual relationship between the defendants and the impact this had on their respective obligations to make the excavations safe. The Principal Contractor (“K Co”) pleaded guilty, as did a small sub-contractor (“L Co.”). The large sub-contractor was convicted after a three week trial. The trial included expert evidence for both sides and detailed submissions on the law relating to the duties lying on specialist sub-contractors, admissibility of…
News 2 Feb, 2017
MJ Allen Holdings Ltd pleaded guilty before the Crown Court to an offence under the work at height regulations. Three of its maintenance workers went onto a fragile roof of approximately 10-11 feet high, using crawling boards that had no edge protection to replace a fan. Whilst on the roof, one of the workers slipped on the crawling board and put his foot through the roof. He did not fall and no proper risk assessment had been undertaken. As a result, no proper method of work had been devised that adhered to health and safety guidelines about working on fragile rooves. However, the learned sentencing judge imposed on the company a fine of £160,000, which has been halved by the…
News 13 Jan, 2017
Tim Green awarded “The Lawyer Monthly’s Health and Safety Barrister 2016” The 2016 Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards recognises firms, individual lawyers, solicitors and barristers that have dedicated their resources to innovation, built on their depth of expertise, and performed outstandingly over the year. Over several months, the Lawyer Monthly research team collected and collated nominations through their online voting system. Each nomination was then compared against a strict set of measurable criteria, which was combined with additional industry research to help produce a definitive list of winners. The Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2016 winners stood out from their peers by demonstrating professional achievement and excellence in their jurisdiction and sector of practice. Tim Green has been consistently recommended by the…
News 19 Dec, 2016
On Friday 25th November, Tim Green presented a seminar to 150 delegates at the Health & Safety Lawyers Annual Conference. In his talk Tim analysed important new case law governing the application of the Sentencing Guidelines to health and safety investigations. The conference was a great success. Tim has been consistently recommended by the legal directories for his work in health and safety and environmental law. Please click here for Tim’s slides.
News 28 Nov, 2016
