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.

Health and Safety

Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Health and Safety

Hi Quality Steel

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

Health and Safety

Bilfinger

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

Health and Safety

Bellway Homes

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

s2 HSWA 74

Health and Safety

Nylacast

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

Health and Safety

Warwick Estates

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

Health and Safety

MH

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

Health and Safety

R -v- Henry

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

Health and Safety

R -v- CMB

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.

Health and Safety

Heap

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

Health and Safety

Foxhill Equestrian Services

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

Health and Safety

Little Champs Nursery

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.

Health and Safety

Icon Process systems

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

Health and Safety

OSS

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

Inquest

Davek

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.

Inquest

Andrews

Represented Company.

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

Inquest

Palmer-Hoy

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

Death in custody. Article 2

Inquest

C Jones

Represented Company.

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

Inquest

McManus

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

Inquest

Victor

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.

Inquest

Campion

Representing Utilities Company.

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

Inquest

Faulkner

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.

Inquest

T Singh

Representing Company.

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

Inquest

P Andrews

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

Inquest

Jimmy Palmer-Hayes

Representing GeoAmey.

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

Inquest

S Hethrington

Representing Individual.

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

Inquest

E Mitchinson

Representing Individual General Practitioner.

In relation to hisinvolvement in the clinical care of the deceased.

Inquest

Kurylowicz

Representing the Coroner.

s13 Coroners Act Applicationto reopen inquest.

Inquest

T Jones

Representing GeoAmey.

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

Inquest

C Hunt

Representing GeoAmey.

Death in Custody. Article 2

Inquest

PC Bill Parker

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.

Trading Standards

R v Ward

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

Trading Standards

Moguland

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

Trading Standards

Zenith Staybright Ltd (ENTU PLC)

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

Fire Safety

Britannia

Represented Company and Director.

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

Food Safety

FoodCo Ltd

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

Environmental

United Utilities

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

Environmental

EA v R Davies

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

Environmental

Holt

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

Environmental

Williams

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

Murder

R v Wilson

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

Murder

R v Powell

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.

https://thetab.com/uk/manchester/2018/05/17/rncm-student-accuses-friend-of-raping-her-because-he-was-in-a-bad-mood-34802

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5746789/Top-musical-student-24-accused-raping-fellow-undergraduate-cleared.html

Rape

Young

Defence counsel Rape. Acquitted

Rape

Operation Advance

Defence counsel First Cold Case Review case acquittal. rape.

Rape

Knott

Rape. Defence counsel Client request. Aquitted.

Rape

Knight

Rape - Client request. Acquitted after trial

Private Client

C Evans - Rape

Acted on appeal.

Private Client

A Johnson

Sexual activity with a child.

Private Client

C Killen.

Sexual activity. Successfully negotiated reducedplea such that suspended sentence imposed

Private Client

D Ward

Assault. Successful in efforts to ensure thatthe complainant, another high-profile celebrity, was fundamentally underminedwhen giving evidence such that no costs were ordered and sentence imposed wasminimal.

Private Client

J McEachran Assault

Professional sportsman. Acquitted.

Private Client

A Tinkler

Assault. Acquitted.

Private Client

M Ferrucci

Rape. Acquitted.

Private Client

A Keyte

Police Officer. Assault. Acquitted.