Lisa Judge

Notable Cases

• Health and Safety

  Lisa Judge represented a company charged with s2 HSWA involving the fatality of an employee. The Prosecution pursued the case on the basis of the failure to undertake a Risk Assessment, the failure to recognise a danger zone and the failure to implement any effective control measures. The Company was medium sized with an £18 million turnover with a previous conviction for a breach of the HSWA. As a consequence of her participation in the inquest, detailed discussions with the client and the preparation of a compelling plea in mitigation the financial penalty imposed was £120k with two years for the company to pay. Instructing solicitors have commented that the result was remarkable in all the circumstances and particularly where the sentence imposed was less than that imposed for the previous non-fatal breach.

• Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

  Health and Safety

  Multiple fatalities. Representing the Trust. Guilty Pleas Tendered. The systemic breaches were directly causative of the deaths;

  The breaches were symptomatic of a general malaise as to culture, standards and priorities which existed at Stafford Hospital.

• Hi Quality Steel

  Health and Safety

  Fatality involving employee being injured when a Stihl saw blade exploded. Issues as regards safe systems of work. Inquest and Criminal Proceedings. Guilty Plea. Represented Company. Turnover; Medium

• Bilfinger

  Health and Safety

  Fatality. Inquest and Criminal Proceedings. Guilty Plea. Contested 4 day Newton hearing. Defence successful. Representing Company. Turnover: Large

• Bellway Homes

  Health and Safety

  Injuries: Level A/High. Systemic Failings alleged. Represented Company. Guilty Plea. Contested Newton Successful.
   

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• Nylacast

  Health and Safety

  Representing Company. Employee fatally injured by engineering process. Safe systems of work and risk assessment issues.

• Warwick Estates

  Health and Safety

  Fatality. Inquest and Criminal proceedings. Guilty Plea. Tenant fell to death down lift shaft. Systemic failings. Representing Company.Turnover: Medium

• MH

  Health and Safety

  Elderly pedestrian fatally injured by delivery van. Pedestrian segregation and traffic management issues.

• R -v- Henry

  Health and Safety

  Health and Safety fatality. Individual Health and Safety Manager prosecuted. Work at Height and Safe systems of work. Acquitted.

• R -v- CMB

  Health and Safety

  Individual Director Prosecuted for Health and Safety Offences resulting in the death of two contractors. Acquitted of the manslaughter offence. Guilty plea to health and safety breaches.

• Heap

  Health and Safety

  Fall from height, fatality. Individual prosecuted for pervert the course of justice.

• Foxhill Equestrian Services

  Health and Safety

  Fatality. Representing the director. Employee crushed when large equestrian jump fell and crushed employee.

• Little Champs Nursery

  Health and Safety

  Representing company in relation to numerous health and safety offences in regards to the safety of the Nursery environment further to a crush injury having been suffered by one of the children within the Nursery.

• Icon Process systems

  Health and Safety

  Representing the company, fabricator of water vessels. Work at Height and safe systems of work in issue. Serious injuries.

• OSS

  Health and Safety

  Work at height. Representing Company as regards failings in relation to the planning of a work at height project. Serious injuries sustained by employee.

• Davek

  Inquest

  Represented Care Home.

  Death in nursing home. Hypoglycemic episode. Question as to care provided by Home and the systems as regards service user reception and acquisition of relevant material. Safe issuing of medication etc.

• Andrews

  Inquest

  Death at work. Bale fall onto employee crushing him fatally. Risk assessment and safe systems of work in issue.

• Palmer-Hoy

  Inquest

  Representing GeoAmey. System failure as regards the care afforded to prisoners suffering from mental-health issues.

  Death in custody. Article 2

• C Jones

  Inquest

  Represented Company.

  Represented property management company in regards to tenant falling to his death down a lift shaft.

• McManus

  Inquest

  Representing Local Authority in regards to the suicide of a young girl released from a psychiatric unit. Multiple agencies involved. Article 2.

• Victor

  Inquest

  Representing Company.

  Death of an employee at work undertaking demolition works. Safe systems of work, Risk Assessments and Method statements in issue. Extremely sensitive due to the nature of the injuries sustained and the very obvious impact upon the family.

• Campion

  Inquest

  Representing Utilities Company.

  Death of a motorcyclist. Utilities company responsible for repairing the road. Historical documentation required to analyse the maintenance in place.

• Faulkner

  Inquest

  Representing Care Home.

  Death in a care Home. Full investigation into the systems in place at the Care Home to investigate legionella bacteria and the resident's exposure to it.

• T Singh

  Inquest

  Representing Company.

  Death at work. Fatalinjury caused when pressurised equipment caused high velocity expulsion ontochest of deceased.

• P Andrews

  Inquest

  Representing Company. Employee crushed to death subsequent to a balecollapse.

• Jimmy Palmer-Hayes

  Inquest

  Representing GeoAmey.

  Death in custody. Management of psychiatric ill-health within the custodial setting. Article 2.

• S Hethrington

  Inquest

  Representing Individual.

  Tractor involved in the crushing to death of a farm worker. Traffic/pedestrian segregation.

• E Mitchinson

  Inquest

  Representing Individual General Practitioner.

  In relation to his involvement in the clinical care of the deceased.

• Kurylowicz

  Inquest

  Representing the Coroner.

  s13 Coroners Act Application to reopen inquest.

• T Jones

  Inquest

  Representing GeoAmey.

  Death in Custody. Psychiatric treatment provided to prisoner and whether appropriate review of medical records undertaken. Article 2

• C Hunt

  Inquest

  Representing GeoAmey.

  Death in Custody. Article 2

• PC Bill Parker

  Inquest

  Representing Utilities Company.

  Death of serving police officer after bridge collapsed during Cumbrian floods.

• Advisory Work

  Greater Manchester Police Instructed Lisa Judge in relation to a High-profile prisoner (now deceased) who had refused to disclose the whereabouts of the body of a child murdered a number of decades ago.

• Advisory Work

  Lisa Judge is instructed by the Home Office to undertake a review of seized material to determine whether privilege attaches to material gathered during the execution of search warrants.

• Advisory Work

  A high-profile solicitor arrested for an offence of perverting the Course of Public Justice. Represented at the police station. No charges pursued.

• R v Ward

  Trading Standards

  Largest trading standards prosecution in the UK. Defence Counsel for individual Director. Acquitted

• Moguland

  Trading Standards

  Represented prosecuting authority. Importation of dangerous Hoverboards from China. Guilty pleas tendered.

• Zenith Staybright Ltd (ENTU PLC)

  Trading Standards

  Representing individual director in regards to numerous trading standards and fraud offences. Acquitted. Sale of windows to vulnerable members of the public. Multi million pound fraud alleged.

• Britannia

  Fire Safety

  Represented Company and Director.

  Criminal Proceedings. Listed for Trial. Resolved by way of acceptable plea. Turnover: Small.

• FoodCo Ltd

  Food Safety

  Representing the company in regards to enforcement proceedings brought as a result of animal excrement and general food safety offences within the restaurant unit at Birmingham New Street.

• United Utilities

  Environmental

  Numerous cases of environmental offending to include fresh and waste water. Evidence requiring tidal modelling and contested expert evidence. Newton Hearing. Turnover: Very Large

• EA v R Davies

  Environmental

  Major fire of waste recycling plant. Representing Director. Satisfactory negotiation of limited plea. No sentence of imprisonment imposed.

• Holt

  Environmental

  Individual Director prosecuted for numerous large-scale fires at Plastic Recycling facility. Suspended sentence imposed.

• Williams

  Environmental

  Individual Director prosecuted for numerous large-scale fires at a waste treatment facility. Ongoing.

• R v Wilson

  Murder

  Mother and Two brothers indicted for murder. Junior Counsel for sole defendant acquitted of murder and all other charges

• R v Powell

  Murder

  Junior Defence counsel. Multi-handed Conspiracy to murder. Acquitted.

• Rape

  Lisa Judge represented Royal Northern College of Music student charged with rape of a fellow student but who was acquitted after trial. The Prosecution case was heavily reliant upon apparent confessions made over social networking between the Defendant and the complainant. The Defendant asserted that all sexual activity between them was consensual.

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• Young

  Rape

  Defence counsel Rape. Acquitted

• Operation Advance

  Rape

  Defence counsel First Cold Case Review case acquittal. rape.

• Knott

  Rape

  Rape. Defence counsel Client request. Aquitted.

• Knight

  Rape

  Rape - Client request. Acquitted after trial

• C Evans - Rape

  Private Client

  Acted on appeal.

• A Johnson

  Private Client

  Sexual activity with a child.

• C Killen.

  Private Client

  Sexual activity. Successfully negotiated reduced plea such that suspended sentence imposed

• D Ward

  Private Client

  Assault. Successful in efforts to ensure that the complainant, another high-profile celebrity, was fundamentally undermined when giving evidence such that no costs were ordered and sentence imposed was minimal.

• J McEachran Assault

  Private Client

  Professional sportsman. Acquitted.

• A Tinkler

  Private Client

  Assault. Acquitted.

• M Ferrucci

  Private Client

  Rape. Acquitted.

• A Keyte

  Private Client

  Police Officer. Assault. Acquitted.