More questions than answers

摘要

At the end of 2008 the first health and safety case in years to come before the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court) was heard. R v Chargot Ltd and others [2008] UKHL 73 was meant to deal with many of those grey areas in the law practitioners have been grappling with for some years. Unfortunately, it has transpired the case has raised more questions than it has answered.rnAnecdotal evidence suggests that in 2009 there were at least as many different interpretations of the meaning of Chargot as there were judges who heard cases and tried to apply it! It should therefore come as no surprise that the first case has already come before the Court of Appeal to try to make sense of what their Lordships intended. This is hardly a satisfactory state of affairs.