Practice Areas
Environmental law and health & safety law are both areas of rapid development, drawing on a wide range of domestic and EC statute, encompassing issues of human rights and both corporate and personal criminal liability.
5pb advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters.
Examples of our recent work include:
- acting as counsel for Great Western Trains in the Southall fatal rail crash inquiry;
- acting for Balfour Beatty in the Hatfield rail disaster appeal;
- representing the defence in the Tebay rail disaster;
- representing a North Sea Oil company in connection with alleged dangerous driving practices;
- advising on annual health and safety audits.
- advising major construction companies