Lisa Roberts QC successfully prosecutes large steel manufacturer in one of the first cases to be sentenced under the new Health and Safety sentencing guidelines

Severfield (UK) Ltd pleaded guilty following a lengthy investigation and prosecution brought about by a fatality at their site in North Yorkshire. The company was fined in accordance with sentencing guidelines which only came into force on 1st February. Lisa and Austin Welch recently gave a seminar on the sentencing regime adopted by the courts in such cases. Lisa was instructed by the Health and Safety Executive.

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