Over the past year, UK regulators have intensified inspections and prosecutions for significant legislative breaches, resulting in severe fines, reputational damage, and potential custodial sentences. This article explores non-compliance consequences and showcases successful client defense strategies.
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Over the last 12 months there has been a noticeable increase in
activity levels by the main UK regulators; conducting inspections,
investigations and prosecutions where significant breaches of
legislation have taken place resulting in actual harm or a risk of
harm.
In this article, we look at the consequences of non-compliance
and some examples of why things go wrong and explain how we have
been able to help our rural clients.
What is the cost of getting it wrong?
In the event of a successful prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Food
Standards Agency and Local Authority Environmental Health
Departments, the Courts have unlimited sentencing powers in terms
of the fines that can be imposed. There are other consequences that
are less straightforward to quantify in financial terms, such as
reputational damage, the impact of director disqualification and
having a criminal conviction.
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