Our Health & Safety and Environmental regulatory practice benefits from the experience and expertise that comes from team members having served at the coalface of Health & Safety regulation and Environmental licensing and regulation.
Former HSE inspector/prosecutor Richard Voke has been a specialist defence lawyer for the last 23 years and defends our clients against criminal matters and investigations brought by the HSE, the Environment Agency, National Resources Wales, fire authorities, DEFRA, Environmental Health and others. We provide a “defending early” approach to health and safety and all regulatory matters. ensuring clients implement good risk management systems, are fully briefed on latest cases and compliant with their regulatory and statutory duties. When issues occur, we react quickly with defence and incident management services and communicating with stakeholders and when appropriate the investigating regulators.
Our services include interpretation and advice on regulatory legislation (including major hazards), regulatory litigation and mediation (including criminal cases), directors, senior officer and shareholder risk/liability management from threats such as corporate manslaughter, bribery and environmental law, inquests, security issues, contractor control and risk limitation, accident/incident investigation leadership, compliance, and advice in relation to flood works and marine licences.
We also partner with health and safety solutions providers Alcumus and Safe Contractor, equipping our clients with a 360-degree suits of health & safety advice and services.
