Robert Spicer
Health and safety in a war context
Comparative health and safety in a war context Reports of health and safety prosecutions cover, with depressing regularity, incidents...
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Robert Spicer
Aug 2, 20125 min read
Legal Latin
Customs and Excise Commissioners v Polok and Another (2002) P and others ran an escort agency. The Customs and Excise Commissioners...
Robert Spicer
Jul 27, 20128 min read
Poverty and the denial of justice
Examples of poor clients who have been denied justice Redundancy Practice as an employment lawyer currently involves an increasing number...
Robert Spicer
Jul 19, 20124 min read
Class Justice - Part 2
Class justice means, essentially, that the principles of justice operate inequitably in favour of one class of people in relation to...
Robert Spicer
Jul 12, 20122 min read
Class Justice
Crimewatch:an exemplar of the spectacle of class justice The crimes presented in the Crimewatch television programme by glamorous...
Robert Spicer
Jul 6, 20126 min read
Recent Health and Safety Prosecutions July 2012
Fatal head injuries: £200,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v SITA UK Ltd (2012) Wolverhampton Crown Court, June SITA UK Ltd, a...
Robert Spicer
Jun 28, 20121 min read
Cuba
The following aspects of legal practice in Cuba have been reported: After the revolution, the prestige of lawyers declined and many left...
Robert Spicer
Jun 21, 20123 min read
Recent Health and Safety Prosecutions June 2012
Severed hand: £100,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Lisec (UK and Ireland) Ltd (2012) Teesside Crown Court, May 29 Lisec (UK and...
Robert Spicer
Jun 17, 20124 min read
Human Rights
Human Rights Act 1998 The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law in the...
Robert Spicer
Jun 10, 20125 min read
Corporate Manslaughter
Second conviction since 2008 JMW Farms Limited, a Northern Irish farming company, has been fined following its conviction for corporate...
Robert Spicer
Jun 2, 20121 min read
Legal Aid and Charity
No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. Aneurin Bevan 1947....
Robert Spicer
May 23, 20122 min read
Employment of children: Beecroft
In 1815 Robert Owen toured the main factories of Britain. He observed that “in some large factories from one-fourth to one-fifth of the...
Robert Spicer
May 16, 20123 min read
Sam Hallam
Miscarriages of justice The quashing of the conviction of Sam Hallam may remind readers of the following: Guildford Four. In summary, a...
Robert Spicer
May 10, 20122 min read
Law Reform Proposals
In 1986 Lord Gifford QC published proposals for the reform of the justice system, described as a realisable manifesto for a complete...
Robert Spicer
May 6, 20122 min read
Compensation awards
The Ogden Tables These Tables took their name from Michael Ogden QC who was the chair of the working party which first drew them up. They...
Polly Lord
Apr 25, 20128 min read
Glossary
The following is a provisional explanation of words and phrases which appeared in last week’s blog and which in my experience I have had...
Robert Spicer
Apr 11, 20125 min read
Queen's Counsel
The rank of QC (Queen’s Counsel) has been awarded, for at least 400 years, to advocates (mostly barristers) who have been recognised,...
Robert Spicer
Apr 4, 20127 min read
Alternative legal practice
The practice of law in an alternative way attempts to address the fact that the poor are denied justice and to resist the fact that law...
Robert Spicer
Mar 25, 20122 min read
Money and the law
Each wanton judge new penal statutes drawLaws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law Goldsmith, The Traveller A lawyer with his...
Polly Lord
Mar 22, 20122 min read
Budget 2012
Yesterday, I found myself in a rather unusual position…I found myself applauding the Conservatives. Now, this is not usually a position I...
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