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Defended multinational company in HSE case involving workplace fatality at windfarm.
Defending a Local Authority prosecution under s3(1) Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, relating to a fatality in a residential care home, where issues of defective design and inspection arose.
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…
Keith represented BAM Construction Limited at a month long trial in which the Company was accused of failing to comply with its duties under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Regulation 22 of the…
Acted for the prosecution arising out of the death of a toddler at Dicky Birds Nursery. Company pleaded guilty to Health and Safety Offences. Fined £180,000 plus costs.
An 18 year old woman had her stomach removed in emergency surgery hours after consuming a drink accompanied by a ‘smoke effect’ made using liquid nitrogen. The bar was prosecuted under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and…
Company prosecuted for failing to ensure the safety at work of its employees following an accident at Edgware Bus Depot in which a cleaner suffered serious injury. The company was acquitted following a two week trial
Inquest into the death of a person who accessed railway infrastructure operated by TfL. The issues in the case included consideration of the response of line controllers to the knowledge that a person had accessed the infrastructure.
Prosecution concerning an explosion at a steel works when water was being used to cool a spillage of molten material. The case considered the engineering issues which gave rise to the spillage and operational issues which resulted in the explosion. …
