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Browne Jacobson LLP’s cross-departmental team delivers a wide range of health and safety advice and representation to public sector clients. Fiona Carter provides prosecution advice to the Midlands HSE and local authorities, and Andrew Hopkin’s eight years of criminal law experience is valuable on HSE and police investigations. Hopkin also has experience in corporate manslaughter matters.

Shoosmiths won a number of major new national clients, and was appointed to the Midlands HSE prosecution panel in 2010. The team, now led by Ron Reid and includes Malcolm Upfold, and assists on fatality cases in the food, fuel and retail sectors among others, and provides occupational safety training and compliance audits. Assistant Caroline Steel and associate Hayley Saunders are praised for their ‘approachability, professional support and knowledge’.

Clients note Cartwright King for its ‘combination of attentiveness, compassion and knowledge’ in relation to preparation for investigations and interviews; it has ‘a real specialist knowledge and reputation’. Andrew Brammer, Lynn Bleakley and Mark Wilson are ‘very responsive and very knowledgeable, and get good results’.

Eversheds LLP is highly rated nationally for its health and safety practice.

Shakespeares’ business defence unit continues to represent several large plcs and bulk providers on health and safety, contentious environmental and regulatory matters. In 2010, Alan Millband’s Court of Appeal case R v Bodycote HIP clarified several sentencing principles.

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