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In the complex legal field of Health and Safety the expert lawyers at Blake Lapthorn Linnell can minimise the risks to your business and skilfully defend any action against you.

The past 30 years have seen an ever increasing emphasis on Health and Safety, both in and out of the workplace. This has been matched by a greater willingness on the part of courts, both civil and criminal, to widen the scope of duties of care and to back this up with greater penalties and compensation awards.

Blake Lapthorn Linnell's Health and Safety group draws together the experience and skills of lawyers from a variety of backgrounds, including local authority and private practice. As a result, it can look at issues from every viewpoint and can feed its extensive experience of past cases into your management systems.

Involving Blake Lapthorn Linnell's Health and Safety group in your business means that your Health and Safety procedures can be set firmly into a legal framework that governs your relationship with other businesses and other aspects of regulatory law.

The group works on the maxim that prevention is better than cure, but if you are unfortunate enough to be the subject of a claim or investigation, the group can provide experienced personal injury litigators to defend the claim and seasoned lawyers with a background in criminal law to ensure the most effective response to the investigation.

Unlike many other firms in this field, the group's lawyers, although they are experienced in prosecuting in other regulatory fields, do not prosecute for the Health & Safety Executive or for local authorities. Blake Lapthorn Linnell

HEALTH & SAFETY REGULATIONS
Regulation now affects most businesses in one form or another; it could be through legislation relating to health & safety, trading standards, data protection, financial services or environmental issues. The regulators have wide powers to search premises, obtain witness statements, impose sanctions on businesses and senior managers and prosecute individuals and companies for breaches of regulatory legislation.

Our regulatory team are able to deal with a variety of matters including:
• Heath & Safety
• Trading Standards
• Food Safety
• Public Inquiry hearings

This trend of growth in regulation is likely to continue and businesses should take steps to minimise the risk of prosecution. This should include reviewing existing policies, procedures and documentation to ensure they are fully compliant and to have a contingency plan in place when things go wrong. Sydney Mitchell Solicitors