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Employers have a legal duty to their employees under Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the health, safety and well-being of their employees.

The Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (“RIDDOR”) requires employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and some…

We don’t need Powers of Attorney yet, we are not old and we are quite capable of looking after ourselves – I have heard these comments many times.  My response is that’s great and long may it continue but what will happen if you suddenly can’t…

Week 11 was a curious mixture. Other stories have knocked Covid-19 down the running order of news broadcasts and off the front pages, and the speed and, at times, apparent randomness of the release of some lockdown restrictions and the introduction…