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Health, safety and environmental

Supporting you through legal action following a health and safety or environmental event.

If you're facing investigation or enforcement activity in respect of a health and safety or environmental breach or incident, let us help you.

We have an impressive track record in working with companies and individuals in cases involving the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Environment Agency (EA), local authorities and the police.

We'll provide expert advice and a sensitive support service following what could be an unfortunate or even tragic event.

Where we need to work alongside lawyers in other jurisdictions, we call upon our international best friend network of law firms to provide local expertise. This helps us ensure we find the right local lawyer for the job thereby keeping cost and indemnity spend down.

Examples of work

Defending a fireworks operator from charges arising from the M5 motorway disaster

Advising a Formula 1 team in connection with a regulatory investigation

Advising on many high profile incidents, often behind the scenes

Advising a corporate in connection with an Environment Agency investigation following a diesel pollution incident

Advising on breaches of permits, fly-tipping and waste offences

Spotlights

They are a stellar health and safety team who have an encyclopaedic knowledge of law and are able to combine that with tremendous attention to detail on complicated issues concerning factual and expert evidence.
Chambers UK 2020

Their expertise, client approach and engagement with all parties is excellent
Chambers UK 2019

Undertakes serious criminal cases including corporate manslaughter and other prosecutions arising from serious accidents such as explosions and RTAs. Regularly undertakes matters on behalf of insurer
Chambers UK 2018