Keywords: prosecutions, sentencing, fines, Court of Appeal, health and safety,

When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing

Howard Fidderman | Feature | HSB
27.02.2008

Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, little has changed from the abject situation that
we reported two years ago. True, average fines continue to rise, and the level at which fines were once deemed "extraordinary" - ...

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