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Health & Safety Solicitors are invited to attend a seminar on Thursday 19th September at BPP Professional Education, Oxford Street, Manchester from 5.30pm. To obtain full details and reserve a place please contact Elizabeth Reeves on 0161 832 5701 or ereeves@lincolnhousechambers.com Since the introduction of the Guideline for sentencing in health and safety offences in…Read more
As the UK’s largest water and wastewater company with an annual turnover of around £20 billion, Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Water) is considered to be a very large commercial organization for the purposes of sentencing in accordance with the Definitive Guidelines for both environmental and health and safety…Read more
A Wythenshawe man has been convicted of unlawfully killing his friend in the course of a row after a night of drink and drug abuse.. On Friday 2nd August 2019, a jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted, Denver Walton, 18, of 27 Covert Road, Wythenshawe, of manslaughter. He had…Read more
Anna Chestnutt was instructed by the Royal College of Nursing to represent PL, a qualified nurse since 1985, in a Fitness to Practice hearing before the NMC. She successfully argued there was no case to answer for her client following fourteen weeks of evidence presented by the NMC. The case…Read more
Andrew Thomas Q.C. and Austin Welch have secured the acquittal of Chapman and Sons Limited, a food company in the North East of England, and its two directors on charges under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013. The prosecution arose out of an outbreak of salmonella that occurred…Read more
Simon Gurney was instructed by Deepika Raino of Slater & Gordon Solicitors to represent TS, a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, who had been referred to a Disciplinary Panel over allegations of misconduct surrounding a residential property valuation. It was alleged by the RICS that TS,…Read more
Lisa was instructed to represent Thames Water in their first prosecution for 15 years by the DWI. Against a background of multi-million pound fines for prosecutions by the Regulators, Lisa and her junior, Alison Pryor, managed to achieve a fine of only £160,000 for TWUL. Lisa has defended four out…Read more
Alistair Webster Q.C. and Alex Leach have just completed the successful defence of Boy A in the Yousef Makki murder trial. Yousef was a MGS pupil and the case has featured widely in the national press. Commenting on the acquittals, Alistair said: “ This was a very difficult and emotive…Read more
Lisa Roberts QC and Leila Ghahhary involved in a Health and Safety Prosecution of a Very Large Organisation Leila Ghahhary prosecuting on behalf of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council and Lisa Roberts QC defending Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited who pleaded guilty to an offence under s3 of the Health and…Read more
Mark Ford leading Mark Friend, instructed by Philip Lythgoe of Cunninghams Solicitors in Manchester, have secured the acquittal of their client, Lee Adshead, on charges of murder and attempted murder following a 9 week trial before the Honourable Mrs Justice Cutts at the Manchester Crown Court. The case concerned the…Read more