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Articles Health & Safety 4th Mar 2019

Court of Appeal considers the relevance of expert evidence to the issue of “harm” re Health & Safety Offences

Court of Appeal considers the relevance of expert evidence to the issue of “harm” under the Sentencing Guidelines applicable to Health & Safety Offences.

In R v Squibb Group Limited [2019] EWCA Crim 227 the Court of Appeal (Leggatt LJ, Cutts J and HHJ Wall QC) considered the issue of ‘harm’ under the Definitive Guideline for Health and Safety Offences (‘Sentencing Guidelines’).   The decision has the potential to encourage reliance on expert evidence at the sentencing stage in health and safety prosecutions, leading to more complex, costly and lengthy hearings.

Please see here for full article by Toby Riley-Smith and Abigail Cohen


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