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Health & Safety | UK Bar

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This section incorporates both contentious and non contentious health & safety issues. On the contentious side it includes defence and prosecution of companies and senior executives facing investigations or actions initiated by regulatory bodies including criminal breaches of the law such as corporate manslaughter. Public inquest work is also included. On the non-contentious side the section covers regulatory compliance advice, risk management and training. The health & safety issues which fall under the remit of this section are very broad from general health and safety at work to food safety, fire safety and issues affecting the waste, utilities, nuclear, rail and other industries.

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Compass Chambers 13 Years Ranked

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Compass Chambers
Health & Safety
2026 | Band 1 | 13 Years Ranked
Compass Chambers houses a strong bench of advocates who are highly regarded for their expert handling of complex health and safety cases arising across the engineering, oil and gas, rail and construction sectors, among others. The stable is regularly instructed in the most high-profile health and safety cases in the market, including acting on a Fatal Accident Inquiry relating to the death of a pedestrian who was struck by the extended crane outrigger leg of a passing lorry. Sources report that it offers "leading counsel at both junior and senior level," and another interviewee state that the stable's "advocates provide high quality legal advice with an understanding of the commercial impact the advice has".
Gavin Herd is the practice manager.
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