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Health, Safety & Inquests

Service overview

What we do

Health and safety incidents can have profound consequences for people, operations and reputation. We advise organisations, directors and individuals on compliance, investigations, enforcement and inquests across sectors including construction, manufacturing, transport, healthcare, retail and leisure.
Our work includes creating policies and management systems, serious workplace incidents, Health and Safety Executive and local authority investigations, enforcement notices, interviews under caution, prosecutions and coronial proceedings.

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How we can help

We provide urgent and ongoing support following an incident, helping to preserve evidence, manage communications, protect privilege and coordinate the response to regulators and other stakeholders. We also conduct compliance reviews, advise on remedial action and deliver training designed to reduce future risk.
Whether the priority is prevention, investigation or defence, our advice is clear and practical, focused on protecting people, meeting legal obligations and achieving the best available outcome.

Delivering practical training on responsibilities, incident management and regulatory compliance.

Advising on improvement and prohibition notices, fees for intervention and available challenges.

Coordinating advice where an incident also involves permits, pollution, abatement notices or local authority action.

Reviewing management systems, governance and operational controls against statutory duties and recognised practice.

Providing immediate support after workplace accidents, fatalities and other serious events.

Preparing and representing organisations, directors, managers and employees during formal questioning.

Representing interested persons throughout the coronial process, including preparation and advocacy.

Preserving evidence, interviewing witnesses and assessing exposure under legal professional privilege.

Defending organisations and individuals in magistrates’ and Crown Court proceedings.

Managing contact with the Health and Safety Executive, local authorities, police and other agencies.

Advising on notification duties and the content and timing of reports.

What to expect from us

The right legal experts, wherever you are.

Regional teams, nationally connected – we move quickly, stay close, and bring the right specialists together around you.

Our Partners take the time to understand what matters to each client and remain closely involved as work progresses. Their experience brings perspective, sound judgment and a clear sense of what may be needed next as we grow together. This continuity creates trusted relationships, keeps advice grounded in the wider context and gives clients direct access to the people responsible for guiding their most important decisions.

A relationship with us can develop as your ambitions, circumstances and priorities change, grow and evolve over the years. We bring together the right combination of legal and professional expertise from across the business, without losing the relationships and understanding already established. From our full spectrum of services for individuals and businesses alike through to our specialist services in chartered town planning, patent and trademark attorneys, tax, competition and regulatory with sector specialists across the board, you can draw on the broadest of capability while continuing to work with advisers who know what matters to you.

We believe clients shouldn't have to choose between accessibility and expertise. Our advisers are based in the communities where you live and work, providing the personal relationships and local understanding that come from being close at hand. Backed by a connected national business, you also get access to a wide range of specialist expertise.

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