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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 Morton 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…
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…
Keith Morton KC acted for 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…
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. …
