The SHP Legal Arena took place at the heart of Safety & Health Expo at the NEC from 11 to 13 May 2010 and featured a three-day programme packed full of top health and safety lawyers, barristers and other experts speaking on the most pressing legal issues facing practitioners today.
More than 1100 Expo visitors attended the 17 sessions, which looked at everything from directors’ duties to work equipment, and corporate manslaughter to personal-injury claims. The programme was topped and tailed by guest speakers from the HSE – board member and winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from IOSH, Judith Donovan CBE, opened the Arena by urging practitioners to “do health and safety because you believe in it”, while on the final day the regulator’s chief executive, Geoffrey Podger, looked ahead to the main challenges likely to face the profession in the coming years.
Audio recordings and copies of the slide presentations used in the sessions can be accessed by clicking on the name of the relevant speaker below. (Audio presentations last approx 30 minutes.)
Please note that all the presentations are the copyright of the individual speakers and must not be reproduced or reused in any format.
Mick Antoniw – Thompson’s Solicitors
Directors’ duties: voluntary code versus statutory duty
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Michael Appleby – Housemans
Don’t shoot me, I’m only the consultant – criminal liability of H&S advisors
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Kevin Bridges – Pinsent Masons LLP
Incident response protocols – simple legal steps to help protect against liability
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Kevin's audio version is currently unavailable
Judith Donovan CBE – Health and Safety Executive
Opening address
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Rob Elvin – Hammonds
Criminal law: Can it change a person’s behaviour?
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Peter Forshaw – Weightmans LLP
Employers, equip yourselves well – responsibilities for work equipment
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Alison Gray – Dickinson Dees LLP
Take notice – a review of Improvement and Prohibition Notices
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Tom Jones – Thompson’s Solicitors
The Jackson Report on personal injury litigation – insurance industry myths and the reality for employers
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David Lewis – Weightmans LLP
From the boardroom to the dock – senior management and corporate manslaughter
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Paul Marshall – Brodies
Health and safety in Scotland: a transformed regulatory landscape
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Kevin McLoughlin – 1 Temple Gardens
Coroner’s inquests: How to cope with the ordeal following a fatal accident
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Nick McMahon – Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
Enforcement notices: practical dos and don’ts
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Peter McNaught – head of enforcement and litigation, Health and Safety Executive
HSE enforcement policy in relation to prosecuting individuals
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Hilary Ross – Bond Pearce
Fire safety: a burning issue?
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Paul Verrico – Eversheds
The Dreamspace tragedy: lessons for management contractors
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Katharine Vickery – Eversheds
The new sentencing guidelines
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