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Article 03/09/2020
The Health and Safety Executive has recently published its annual provisional figures for workplace fatal injuries that were reported to enforcing authorities in 2019/20.
Article 19/08/2020
Following a workplace incident, authorities investigating possible breaches of health and safety law will request company health and safety policies and pre-existing job descriptions, with a view to establishing, amongst other things, which employees held specific duties and responsibilities with respect to health and safety.
Article 19/08/2020
During the COVID-19 lockdown, the majority of Criminal Courts and Coroners’ Courts have been unable to hold physical (i.e. in person) hearings. In order to progress cases, those courts have been holding administrative hearings by way of video conferencing platforms.
News 01/05/2020
We are pleased to announce that we have hired healthcare partner, Tom Armstrong, to head up a new healthcare team based in our Sheffield office, which opened in 2010. Tom, who joins from Browne Jacobson, will lead a team in Sheffield able to defend clinical negligence claims against GPs, NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers. Tom will be working closely with our healthcare lawyers in Birmingham, Cambridge and London.
Article 31/03/2020
Since April 2015, the Health and Social Care Act 2008 has conferred powers on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to take enforcement action against registered providers and managers who fail to meet the minimum standard of care.
Article 11/02/2020
The way in which people and goods travel is changing rapidly. As a new era of transport continues to unfold, Kennedys is here to keep you up to date on the latest developments and what they mean for you and your business.
Article 20/01/2020
It’s that time of the year again when the Kennedys Hong Kong financial regulatory team puts out our annual review of financial regulatory investigations and proceedings.
Case review 17/12/2019
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (“CFA”) recently handed down its judgment in Zhang Hong Li and others v DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and others (FACV 2/2019) (22 November 2019) which reverses the findings by the Court of Appeal (“CA”) in respect of the breach of trust/fiduciary duties owed to sophisticated investment customers by the trustee and corporate services of a bank.
Article 16/12/2019
Following the Grenfell Tower fire, Dame Judith Hackitt was commissioned by the UK Government to conduct an independent review into building regulations and fire safety, with a particular focus on regulations applied to high rise residential buildings.
Article 16/12/2019
Richard Turfitt, the Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain, has recently highlighted that few companies who come before him at public inquiries manage to link safety and transport, often treating them as separate distinct departments.
