Workplace Claims: Testing the boundaries

9 Gough Square (Chambers of Andrew Ritchie QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | October 2014 #129
Gurion Taussig reviews recent significant employer’s liability cases ‘The duty upon the employer can not be easily displaced and even hazards with a low risk of eventuating will engage the PPE Regulations.’ This employer’s liability article focuses on some of the more significant decisions of the Court of Appeal in the last 18 months. During …

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Case Report: The Chief Constable of Hampshire Police v Taylor [2013] EWCA Civ 496

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | June 2013 #116
Employers’ liability; breach and causation; Personal Protective Equipment Regulations ‘This case illustrates the need to identify the statutory criteria as interpreted by the relevant authorities and focus evidence and arguments accordingly.’ This case provides a telling illustration of the stringency of the Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 1992 (the PPE Regulations) and the evidential difficulties a …

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