Health & Safety Law Update 2022: A Half Day Online Conference

This very timely half day online conference covers a wide range of very topical issues. It will be delivered by 8 speakers, all of whom are experts in Health & Safety law. Each will present a 25 minute session on their specific topic, ranging from the Building Safety Bill through to an Asbestos Update and an assessment of the major changes brought about by recent case law on inquests.

This online conference will be streamed live, direct to your desktop, tablet or smart phone so you can watch it from your office or home. You can participate in the conference live or watch the recorded version whenever you want. In each case you will receive a free recording of the complete conference after the event.

The price for this is £225. This is a per organisation price, so up to 20 of your colleagues can participate at no extra charge, even if they are viewing it from a different location. So, of course, if there are 10 of you, for example, the cost per delegate would be just £22.50.

For firms with 4 or less partners the price is £99 for a single ticket

This is streets ahead of an ordinary webinar or online course experience with one speaker, which often gets very tedious in a very short time. We have 8 speakers. With this online conference, you will be able to participate with your colleagues as you want - either live, or in segments (perhaps viewing it a session at a time over several days/weeks) or on an on-demand, recorded basis. You will be able to take part by video or audio to watch or hear our panel of expert speakers cover the current hot topics, and answer or ask questions, from the comfort of your office or home.

The topics to be covered are:

The Croydon Tram derailment: Blaming individuals. Has nothing been learnt since Ladbroke Grove?"

Inquests: the huge impact of the recent developments

Gross negligence manslaughter

The effect of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 on civil claims

Health & Safety Case law update

Building Safety Bill

Asbestos Update

Legal Privilege in Health and Safety Investigations

Our Speakers:

Gerard Forlin QC, Cornerstone Barristers

Miles Bennett, 5 Paper Buildings

Pascal Bates, 6 Pump Court

Nicholas Baldock, 6 Pump Court

Gordon Menzies, 6 Pump Court

Mark Watson QC, 6 Pump Court

Gareth McAloon, Ropewalk Chambers 

Fiona Canby, Temple Garden Chambers

Gerard Forlin QC, Cornerstone Chambers

Gerard Forlin QC' took silk in 2010 in both the civil and criminal bandings. His broad practice covers civil, criminal and commercial litigation; environment; fire; corporate governance (including bribery and corruption); major event planning & crowd safety; crisis management; health and safety; aviation; inquests and inquiries; local authority governance and services; and regulatory law. Gerard was also called to a number of foreign Bars including the Bar of Ireland in 2020, after passing the Irish Bar Examination. Gerard currently inter alia is instructed in relation to Grenfell Tower, the Shoreham air crash, an F1 case and numerous other cases both in the UK and all over the world. Gerard is known globally in his various fields of practice and has worked from Vancouver in Canada to Queenstown in New Zealand. Also, from the Falkland Islands and South Georgia in the Antarctic Ocean to Seoul in Korea and Beijing in China. He has worked in over 65 countries, one of only a tiny handful of London Barristers to have ever achieved this. He has been ranked for over 20 years in many sections by the Directories: Safety, Aviation, Environmental Law, Inquiries and Inquests, Product Liability and Consumer Law

Miles Bennett, 5 Paper Buildings

Having been instructed in excess of 20 murder trials, numerous fraud and rape cases in the early part of his career, Miles uses his experience, advocacy skills, tactical awareness, common sense and judgment to get the best practical and commercial result for his clients. Miles is ranked in Band 1 for leading juniors for Consumer Law in both the current Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and is ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 for Health and Safety. He is regularly instructed to defend PLCs, Limited companies, Hospital Trusts, and individuals charged with manslaughter and various health and safety offences. and  was instructed as junior counsel for the defence (led by Graham Trembath QC) in the first ever acquittal at trial of a company charged with Corporate Manslaughter. Miles is regularly instructed to represent companies in Health and Safety cases arising out of fatalities in the work place. Current cases include representing a hotel proprietor where a resident fell to his death from a second floor window.

Nicholas Baldock, 6 Pump Court

Nicholas Baldock was called to the Bar in 1983 and joined Six Pump Court in April 1985. Claimant and Defendant insurance and insurance related work forms a large part of his practice in addition to non insurer instructions. He is currently instructed by a number of firms who handle insurers’ work in various fields covering personal injuries, health and safety at work and fire and flood damage. His practice includes many catastrophic injury cases including brain injuries and amputations. One settlement was achieved for a Claimant which included periodical payments of almost £190,000 per annum with a seven figure lump sum. Other cases have included a traumatic double leg amputation and a paraplegia claim arising from an accident at work. He advises on a number of cases in Jersey including high value brain injury claims, in one case achieving over £1.75 million for a badly brain damaged Claimant.

Gordon Menzies, 6 Pump Court

Gordon is a barrister specialising in regulatory law but his practice also extends to acting in complex civil and commercial matters. He is recommended for his work in health and safety in the current editions of Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500. He is also recommended for employment law in Chambers and Partners and for consumer law in the Legal 500. Although he undertakes a broad spectrum of work in this area he has particular experience of criminal prosecutions arising in the context of the construction industry, workplace transport, maritime sector and use of work equipment. He both prosecutes and defends. Many of these cases involve fatalities and serious injuries sustained to employees and non-employees. He also has particular experience of appeals against improvement notices served pursuant to the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

Mark Watson QC, 6 Pump Court

Mark Watson has specialised in health & safety law for more than ten years, and has represented clients in numerous fatal accident cases. Prior to taking silk in 2018 he was on the Regulatory List “A” Panel and was regularly instructed to prosecute in the most serious health and safety offences. He has a broad range of experience of criminal enforcement up to and including at appellate level and has expertise both in the field of civil enforcement in relation to appeals against prohibition and improvement notices before employment tribunals and in judicial review proceedings relating to specialist regulatory regimes. Mark is regularly instructed to inquests on behalf interested parties relating to a broad range of industry sectors and processes, including: a large scale explosion at a plastic manufacturing plant; fatal accidents on the rail network and London Underground system; various fatal workplace transport accidents; fatal accidents which occur in the health sector and in care homes; and a fatal accident during the filming of medieval battle scene for a television documentary.

Gareth McAloon, Ropewalk Chambers

Gareth is regularly instructed in all aspects of industrial disease work including; NIHL, HAVS, occupational asthma, asbestos-related disease, occupational stress, COSHH cases and work-related upper limb disorders including repetitive strain injury claims. The majority of this work has been on the Multi-Track and has involved significant consideration of expert evidence of an engineering and medical nature.  Gareth was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown - Regional Panel C in January 2020. In NIHL cases, Gareth has increasingly been instructed to deal with matters which have raised the issue de minimis injury and has become very familiar with the academic and medical literature which has discussed the aspects of material and noticeable hearing loss. In the HAVS context, he has dealt with cases where the Claimant has alleged vibration-induced Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and has become very familiar with the academic and medical literature which has explored the relationship between vibration and CTS.
In addition, Gareth frequently deals with industrial disease cases which have raised the issue of Limitation and is well versed in all the relevant authorities which have dealt with the Limitation Act 1980

Pascal Bates, 6 Pump Court

Pascal Bates has a significant civil and regulatory law practice. He regularly prosecutes on behalf of local authorities and the HSE, and is routinely sought out for his strategic advice pre-charge. He has considerable experience handling cases concerning fatal accidents and serious injuries. Pascal undertakes a range of regulatory practice but is best known for health and safety prosecutions, the majority of which involve fatalities. He is standing counsel to the Health and Safety Executive.

Important Notes about Booking

1. If you are booking more than say 14 delegates, it is probably better to make two bookings of half the number of delegates each, starting with the paying delegate and then adding half the free delegates to that booking and then creating a new booking for the rest of the free delegates. The reason for this is that the booking platform time-out kicks in perhaps too quickly and you can lose all the information you inputted. Alternatively you can book your first delegate and send the names, job titles and email addresses of the additional delegates to us at info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk

2. Payment can be made by credit or debit card or alternatively by invoice. The option to pay by invoice is below the pay by card option in the booking form

3. If you have more than 20 delegates then extra delegates are £20 each. Contact us at info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk to arrange this

4. If you don't have the complete list of who will be attending you can book for those that you know will be attending and add the others at a later date

5. If you would like to submit questions in advance to the speakers please send them to info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk

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