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Covid Inquiry

Keith Morton KC, leading Daniel Walker, has been retained to advise people involved in the inquiry.

14/04/2023

Re the Inquests touching the deaths of those killed at the Shoreham Airshow

HM Senior Coroner for West Sussex has returned conclusions in respect of the deaths of each of the 11 men killed outside the Shoreham Airshow in 2015. In each case, the Coroner ruled that the deceased had been unlawfully killed as…

20/12/2022

R (HSE) v A Major Construction Company

Keith Morton, instructed by Madeleine Abas, Senior Partner of Osborn Abas Hunt, secured the acquittal of a major construction company following an 8 day trial before the District Judge (Magistrates’ Court) at Derby Magistrates Court. The case explored the relationship…

21/09/2021

Croydon Tram Inquest

Keith Morton KC, leading Fiona Canby, represented Transport for London at the inquests into the deaths of seven people killed in the Croydon Tram crash at Sandilands on 9 November 2016. The inquests were held over 10 weeks. The jury…

21/09/2021

R (HSE) v X Construction Company Limited

Keith secures a reduction of almost quarter of a million pounds for a very large construction company following its guilty plea to a charge under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

09/10/2019

R (HSE) v Mick George Limited

Keith secures a substantial reduction in the fine imposed for breach of Regulation 25(3) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Prosecution arose as a consequence of a tipper vehicle striking an overhead power line (OPL).

09/10/2019

Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Keith has been retained to advise some of those engaged in the Public Inquiry.

09/10/2019

Shoreham Air Disaster Inquest

Keith is instructed by the Civil Aviation Authority in the ongoing Inquests in the deaths of 11 people on 22 August 2015 when a Hawker Hunter participating in the Shoreham Air Show crashed onto the A27

09/10/2019

Group Litigation Order following the Hillsborough Stadium disaster

Keith Morton KC, Tim Sharpe, Robert Riddell and Elizabeth Gallagher are instructed by the Head of Legal Services at South Yorkshire Police in connection with the Group Litigation Order (“GLO”) granted in November 2016. The GLO issues include consideration of…

14/03/2018

R (HSE) V Tata Steel UK Limited

In what is believed to be the first successful appeal against sentence for a very large organisation sentenced for health and safety offences under the Definitive Guidelines, Keith Morton KC and Dominic Adamson KC secured a substantial reduction in a…

13/06/2017

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