In the first of an occasional legal column, Melissa Jones of lawyers Bond Pearce considers the latest of several cases involving challenges to the way the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) Act is defined in practice. Despite the distractions of the festive season, the House of Lords found time in early December to hand down its judgment, somewhat earlier than expected, in the Char-got case (see news page 7), kindly putting quite a few lawyers out of their misery before they disappeared off to enjoy the break.
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