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Injuries at work

04 November 2010
Issue: 7440 / Categories: Legal News
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Britain has the lowest rate of fatal occupational injuries in Europe and one of the lowest levels of work-related ill health, according to statistics published last week by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Between April 2009 and March 2010, 152 workers were fatally injured, down from 179 the previous year. There were 26,061 major injuries, compared with 27,894 in the previous year, and 95,369 injuries serious enough to keep people off work for three or more days, down from 105,261 the previous year. HSE chair, Judith Hackitt said: “Every statistic represents an individual or a family which is now suffering as a result of health and safety failings.”
 

Issue: 7440 / Categories: Legal News
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NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
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Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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