Health and Safety in UK Law

  • Madarassy v Nomura International Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 January 2007
    ... ... allegation was well-founded (allegation-1.12-failure to carry out a health and safety risk assessment in connection with Ms Madarassy's pregnancy) ... ...
  • Anns v Merton London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1977
    ... ... That was the Public Health Act 1936. I must refer to the relevant provisions ... 20 Section 1 ... and Buildings" and contains provisions in the interest of the safety and health of occupiers of dwelling houses and other buildings such as ... ...
  • Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 20 June 2002
    ... ... , all fumes, dust and other impurities that may be injurious to health, generated in the course of work carried on in the factory, and if it is ... to disregard with impunity his duty to take reasonable care for the safety of his employees." ... Lord Salmon's conclusion (pages 12–13) ... ...
  • Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 10 March 1988
    ... ... for Martin's care were in breach of duty in allowing the level of PO 2 in his arterial blood to remain above the accepted level of safety. The judge found that four of these five periods of exposure to an unduly high level of PO 2 were due to the authority's negligence ... 5 In ... ...
  • Stovin and Another v Norfolk County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1996
    ... ... Brentwood District Council [1991] 1 A.C. 398, 408 , public health measures were not intended to safeguard owners of buildings against ... A power to control air safety may be another example, as in Swanson Estate v. Canada (1991) 80 ... ...
  • Stapley v Gypsum Mines Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 25 June 1953
    ... ... , and no person, unless engaged in repairing or in investigating the safety of the workings shall travel on or work in any travelling road or working ... provisions and to secure the safety of the mine, and the safety, health and proper discipline of the persons employed. Regulation 14 (5) ... ...
  • Anns v Merton London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1977
    ... ... That was the Public Health Act 1936. I must refer to the relevant provisions ... 20 Section 1 ... and Buildings" and contains provisions in the interest of the safety and health of occupiers of dwelling houses and other buildings such as ... ...
  • Harbutt's ‘Plasticine’Harbutt's Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Company Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 December 1969
    ... ... pipe) had to be maintained at 120°F, to 160°F.f "the margin of safety", said the Judge, "was dangerously small" ... 17 Second, it was a great ... ...
  • GS (India), EO (Ghana), GM (India), PL (Jamaica), BA (Ghana) & KK (DRC) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 January 2015
    ... ... effectively illegal entrants who can properly be described as 'health tourists'. None of these six appellants falls into that category…" He ... a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic wellbeing of the country, for the prevention of disorder ... ...
  • Bradley Fold Travel Ltd and Another v The Traffic Commissioner for The North West Traffic Area
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 June 2010
    ... ... dated 3 April 2008 in these terms: “(a) Safety inspections will be pre-planned and never more than 6 weeks apart. The PMI ... MOT examination notwithstanding the comparatively clean bill of health that they had received in these checks. He was similarly entitled to reach ... ...
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