Legal profession voices fears that ‘vague’ guidelines will hamper health and safety investigations New Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance limiting the circumstances under which directors and managers should be prosecuted would create “a minefield of uncertainty”, claimed a public law specialist and the Centre for Corporate Accountability (CCA). The HSE guidance for its inspectors […]

Children in child abuse cases may go unprotected because doctors are too afraid to speak out. Bertie Leigh reports The law of negligence is a bit of a bludgeon. Prove duty, breach, damage and causation and you have your remedy. Since the Human Rights Act put restrictions based on public policy at a discount in […]