Dewi Ap-Thomas

Practice Areas

Overview

A well-respected and experienced health & safety lawyer, Dewi has been ranked for a number of years in Chambers and Legal 500 and his reputation with peers and clients continues to grow. He specialises in work in the criminal and coronial jurisdictions. His main focus is assisting organisations in post-death investigations, managing regulatory enforcement action and representing clients at inquests. He has represented clients at hundreds of inquests around the country, involving the most sensitive of cases, workplace deaths and Article 2 hearings in front of juries.

Relevant background and experience

After qualifying, Dewi quickly found himself at home dealing largely with insurer/insured public sector clients. He is dedicated to working within the criminal, regulatory and coronial jurisdictions. Dewi advises a wide range of clients in investigating serious incidents and representing them at inquests, as well as assisting with risk management and behavioural change.

His areas of specialty include:

• Working with organisations to understand their Corporate Risk Profile, to improve culture and behaviours and make the workplace safer.

• Crisis Management Support (24/7) - advice and representation in the wake of incidents.

• Assisting organisations with legally privileged incident investigations to protect their position, learn lessons and make any necessary changes.

• Preparing clients who may be exposed to Regulatory or Coronial investigations/inquests/enforcement action.

• Defence of Health & Safety and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.

• Inquests as a result of workplace fatalities & road traffic incidents.

Clients

Dewi provides advice and representation to a range of household-name clients such as: Nike, E.On UK, RWE Renewables, Kimberly Clark Ltd, Emcor UK Ltd, Chubb Fire & Security and various local authorities and NHS/healthcare clients

As a former Executive Committee Member of the Health & Safety Lawyers’ Association for many years, he was involved in shaping the Guidelines on Sentencing for Corporate Manslaughter and continues to regularly present to a number of regional health & safety focus groups and public sector forums.