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- A Step Too Far? A Personal Injury Lawyer's Perspective on the Gill Review
- Advocates Have Their Say On Personal Injury Pre-Action Protocols
- An employee of a whisky company who developed hearing loss while working on the bottling line wins a £45,000 damages case
- Backtracking? Scottish Government Reduces New Court Threshold
- Bang! New Health & Safety Regulations for Explosives in Scotland, England & Wales
- Call for tighter rules on whiplash claims
- Calls for urgent review of Fatal Accident Inquiries
- Children, Not Adults, More Likely to be Injured in Road Traffic Accidents in Scotland
- Civil Jury Trials in Scotland
- Court Reform Bill Advances but Questions Raised
- Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill Under Fire Again
- Cycling injury claims won for accidents on Edinburgh's tram lines
- Cyclist Obtains £100,000 Following Colission with Motorbike
- David Sandison on the Government’s Response to the Scottish Civil Courts Review Recommendations
- David Sandison's letter to the Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament regarding the Court Reform Bill
- Deck the Halls With Caution This Christmas
- Decrease in Health and Safety Inspections on Construction Sites
- Demand for reduced speed limits to help save cyclists
- England to Follow Scotland by Introducing ‘Fairer’ Bereavement Damages
- Environmental Campaigners Win Court Expenses Order
- Epidemic? Asbestos Still A Serious Problem in Scotland
- EU Having Positive Impact on Safety Legislation
- Faculty has doubts over proposed legislation to reform FAIs
- FAI Delays Cause Suffering for Bereaved Families
- Farm Safety is Top Priority in Northern Ireland
- Firefighter awarded £1.5m after damaged equipment resulted in amputation
- General Election 2015 and Personal Injury Law
- Government Attacks on Health & Safety Legislation Threaten More Accidents, Injuries and Deaths at Work, Warns TUC
- Government response to cosmetic treatment report "too little, too late"
- Great Ego, Not Great White: Why Selfies Are More Dangerous than Sharks
- Had a slip-and-fall in Scotland? Can you file a claim for injuries if you slip and fall on ice at work or in public?
- HSE Crown Censure of MOD over death of cadet
- Increase in Serious Injuries for Scottish Cyclists
- Inquiry terms of reference published following FAI
- Law Society Critical of Changes to Small Claims System
- Lawford Kidd Appoints Leading Claims Lawyer
- Lawford Kidd client recovers £1.5 million in damages in road traffic case
- Lawford Kidd client's accident claim for golf ball injury
- Lawford Kidd Personal Injury Solicitors Ranked Top Three in Scotland by Legal 500, 2014
- Lawford Kidd's PI Solicitor interviewed on BBC Newsdrive on Courts Reform (Scotland Bill)
- Lawford Kidd's submissions published in Justice Committee's report on the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill
- Local authority prosecuted after near drowning
- Lord Gill Defends Civil Reforms as APIL Voices Concerns
- Man Admits Killing Motorcyclist in A9 Crash
- Mesothelioma scare with small fibres made to toughen bike frames and hockey sticks
- Midfielder Takes Legal Action Against Club Following Training Ground Injury
- Military deaths abroad to be investigated in Scotland
- New care home fire safety guide
- New Construction Guide Published to Prevent Injuries
- New project looks at treatment of mesothelioma
- Parliament Debates Courts Reform Bill
- Paul Kirkwood questions Nicola Sturgeon at Scotland's Constitutional Future event
- Penrose Inquiry Publishes Final Report
- Personal Injury Claims against Direct Line – Whiplash Injury
- Police Scotland Urged to Take Action Over Asbestos
- Promotions for our personal injury lawyers Richard Singer and Marina Urie
- Regulator prosecutes Network Rail for Grayrigg train derailment
- Report into expenses and civil litigation funding
- Report Recommends Changes to Fatal Accident Inquiries
- Retail company fined £450,000 for young girls' injury that was "foreseeable and avoidable"
- Review of Expenses and Funding of Civil Litigation in Scotland (The Taylor Review): Response by Lawford Kidd
- Road Traffic Accidents - Reported Road Casualties in Scotland
- Road Traffic Accidents: Have Yourself a Cautious Little Christmas
- Scottish Asbestos Claims – Find Out Why When You Were Exposed Matters
- Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry Process to be Modernised
- Statement from Lawford Kidd client Anthony Phee on his successful personal injury case
- Study finds nighttime work can impact on health
- Suspended jail term for ignoring asbestos safety
- Teacher Killed as a Result of Asbestos Exposure
- The Claimant’s Perspective: The Taylor Review of Expenses and Funding of Civil Litigation in Scotland
- Tougher penalties for health and safety breaches
- Under What Circumstances can you make a Weather Related Accident Claim?
- Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report Published
- Vibration White Finger Update
- Workplace Accidents and Ill Health in Scotland
- Accident at Work
- A fifth of Americans have been injured at work
- A focus on forestry safety
- A Lees employee was hurt by a forklift at a factory in Coatbridge, and the company was fined £5000
- Agricultural Heath & Safety at its Best in Ireland?
- Annual offshore injury figures continue to improve
- APIL warns against watering down Directive
- APIL: NHS Attitude Towards Medical Negligence Must Change
- Apprentices at Risk of Work-Related Injury
- Are UK Construction Firms Protecting Employees from Asbestos?
- Are UK Migrant Workers at Higher Health & Safety Risk?
- Asbestos deaths continue to rise
- Asbestos Related Deaths on the Rise in England
- Blueprint sets out waste industry's safety drive
- Building contractor prosecuted over asbestos exposure
- Building site safety concerns continue
- Business Man Jailed after Worker Suffers Fatal Fall
- Businesses fail to tackle workplace injury and illness
- Call centre workers suffer
- Call for reduction in workplace dust level limits
- Call for Scottish Businesses to Join Work-Related Cancer Campaign
- Calls for More Support for Bereaved Families Following Fatal Accidents At Work
- Calls for Tougher Laws on Enforced High Heel Wear
- Campaign to Cut Work Cancer Deaths
- Campaigns to Improve Road Safety
- Cement firm fined after worker's death
- Certain Self-Employed Persons to Become Exempt from Health & Safety Law?
- Changes to health and safety reporting
- Changes to HSE incident reporting
- Changes to workplace accident reporting
- Chemical firm fined after fireball engulfs employee
- Children, Not Adults, More Likely to be Injured in Road Traffic Accidents in Scotland
- Companies fined for double fish farm deaths
- Company Directors May Become Criminally Liable for Workplace Deaths
- Company fined after fatal accident at work
- Company fined after worker loses part of leg
- Company fined after worker's hand crushed
- Company Fined for Edinburgh Warehouse Fall
- Company fined for three Clyde tug boat deaths
- Compensation for workplace accidents
- Construction Industry Leaders to Tackle Workplaces Diseases
- Construction Industry Must Do More to Combat Dusk Risks for Employees
- Construction safety in the spotlight
- Construction safety still a concern
- Construction Sites Failing to Protect Workers
- Costume designer sues after staircase fall
- Council adopts measures to protect against chemical exposure
- Custody officer awarded compensation after bite
- Decrease in Health and Safety Inspections on Construction Sites
- Deregulation Bill's Health and Safety Clause Remains 'Unwise'
- Deregulation of Health and Safety
- EC consults on future EU health and safety policy framework
- Edinburgh Company Fined for Crush Injuries
- Edinburgh food firm fined after worker injured
- Employer Prosecuted After Worker Severs Thumb
- Employers Fail to Protect Employees from Asbestos Exposure
- England to Follow Scotland by Introducing ‘Fairer’ Bereavement Damages
- Equipment supplier fined after worker's hand severed
- Essex truck firm in court over life-changing injuries
- EU health and safety consultation welcomed
- European Initiative to Improve Workers' Health and Safety
- Experts call for helmets to be worn
- Falls from height lead to serious injury
- Farm Safety is Top Priority in Northern Ireland
- Farm safety still the biggest challenge
- Fatal injuries at work
- Fee for Intervention now in operation
- Firefighter awarded £1.5m after damaged equipment resulted in amputation
- Firm fined after reversing lorry crushes worker
- Firm fined after technician's death at factory
- Firm fined over cooling tower drowning
- Firm in Court after Worker Paralysed in Fall
- Firm in Court Over Asbestos Failings
- Firm prosecuted after workers set alight
- Firms fined for asbestos failings
- Firms fined for fall down lift shaft
- Firms Fined For Workers’ Electrical Burns
- Firms Sentenced After Worker’s Hand Crushed
- First corporate manslaughter conviction in NI
- Focus on Dangers Faced by Road Workers
- Focusing on Health & Safety in the UK Aviation Sector
- Freeing Europe Safely from Asbestos
- Fresh warning after 15 Scottish workers killed
- Glasgow demolition worker fatally injured
- Glasgow Firm Fined Following Death of a Worker
- Glasgow Scaffolding Business fined for Worker’s Death
- Government puts safety law back by 100 years
- Government red tape blitz
- Grangemouth Oil Refinery Operators Fined for Safety Failings
- Great Ego, Not Great White: Why Selfies Are More Dangerous than Sharks
- Grounding of Super Pumas “a proportionate response”
- Health and safety challenges in the manufacturing industry
- Health and safety law reforms
- Health and Safety Professionals Oppose Government Plans
- Health and safety review risks injury to workers
- Healthcare provider fined after worker injury
- Highlighting the Dangers of Asbestos Exposure
- How Many People in the UK are Killed at Work Each Year?
- How Safe Are Workplaces in the UK?
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites
- HSE consults on cost recovery scheme
- HSE Launches New Farm Safety Initiative
- HSE Launches New Workplace Health Committee
- HSE proposals ‘put business profits before workers’ safety’
- HSE prosecutes firm for insurance failure
- HSE publishes data on workplace injury in Scotland
- HSE Publishes Workplace Fatalities Statistics
- HSE Targets Farms with Safety Initiative
- Ill-Fitting Safety Gear Puts Women at Risk
- Impact of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act
- Improving Farm Safety
- Increase in workplace fatalities
- Industry and Academia Should Collaborate to Prevent Workplace Injuries, Glasgow Conference Concludes
- Injuries Board Reiterates the Importance of Workplace Safety
- Investing in Workplace Health and Safety
- IOSH Aiming to Reduce Risk for HGV Drivers and Other Transport Workers
- IOSH Aims to Helps UK Medical Professionals Avoid Needle-Stick Injuries
- IOSH Aims to Improve Occupational Safety for Fashion Workers
- IOSH Recommends New Safety Measures to Prevent Employees Falling from Height
- Is Driving Part of Your Job? Occupational Road Accidents Remain a Problem in the UK
- Is Health & Safety Fee for Intervention Scheme Effective?
- Judge allows tick bite claim to proceed
- Ladders and Asbestos Top Priorities for IOSH
- Latest Workplace Fatality Figures
- Lawford Kidd Succeeds in Recovering £500,000 for Serious Head Injury Accident at Work
- Leading horse trainer in court after worker's fall
- Leicester firm prosecuted after worker's fall
- Man Dies Following Sewage Plant Accident
- Man Loses Two Fingers in Workplace Accident
- Marks and Spencer fined £1 Million for safety failings
- Medical Negligence Claims – 1,200 Unacceptable Serious Events Noted in English Hospitals
- Medical negligence no-fault compensation scheme considered for England
- Millions of Pounds Awarded through Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme
- Minimising the Risks of Fires and Explosions at Work
- New Construction Guide Published to Prevent Injuries
- New figures published for fatally injured workers
- New figures show continued fall in workplace ill health and injury
- New Guide on Accident at Work Claims in Scotland Published
- New initiative to reduce nanotechnology health risks
- New International Health & Safety Standard Aims to Reduce Impact of Workplace Deaths & Injuries
- New Offshore Safety Regulations Come into Force in UK
- New regulations on preventing sharps injuries
- New Scottish Asbestos Law to Recover Millions for NHS?
- NHS Campaign to Tackle Occupational Skin Cancer
- Number of Work-Related Deaths in UK Rises
- Occupational Cancer Awareness Campaign
- Occupational health and wellbeing "wake-up call" needed
- Office Christmas Party Accidents - Can I Claim Compensation?
- Outdoor Workers and Risks of Skin Cancer Revealed
- Packaging company prosecuted after worker injured
- Piper Alpha anniversary commemorations
- Police Scotland Urged to Take Action Over Asbestos
- Property Company Fined for Dangerous Procedures At Heights
- Proposals to exempt self-employed from health and safety law
- Prosecutions over asbestos exposure
- Protecting Waste Sector Workers
- Protecting Workers Against Carcinogen Exposure
- Protecting Workers from Solar Radiation and Silica Dust
- Recycling firm fined for subjecting workers to lead poisoning
- Reducing Carcinogen Exposure at Work
- Reinforcing EU legislation on health and safety at work
- Remembering Those Killed and Injured at Work
- Revised guidance for working at height
- Rise in Scottish workplace fatalities
- Safety clampdown on construction sites
- Safety experts voice concerns
- Scottish Constructions Sites Potentially More Dangerous than those in England
- Scottish Firm Fined after Agency Worker Injured
- Scottish Firm fined after Employee is Burned
- Scottish Firms Urged to Get Behind Occupational Cancer Campaign
- Scottish Local Authority Gets Behind Nation's Anti Work-Related Cancer Campaign
- Scottish Port Operator Fined £650,000 for Breaches of UK Health & Safety Laws
- Scottish worker fatalities increase
- Scottish Worker Suffers Severe Scald Injury
- Skipper Sentenced Following Diver Death in the Forth
- Statistics Highlight Workplace Dangers
- Stewardess sues BA after injury at work
- Supreme Court rules in mesothelioma liability case
- Survey Sheds Light on Safety in the Food Industry
- Teacher Killed as a Result of Asbestos Exposure
- The consequences of cutting corners
- The Link Between Raynaud’s Disease & Vibration White Finger
- The Most Common Types of Personal Injuries: How to Make a Claim
- The Risks of Working with Nanomaterials
- Trade Union Congress (TUC) Slams 'Dangerous' Proposals to Change Health and Safety Rules for Self-Employed
- Training pledge to tackle asbestos death toll
- Transport and Animals are the Biggest Killers in Agriculture
- Triple prosecution after construction death
- TUC launches updated workplace safety guide
- TUC publishes safety manifesto
- Two thirds of Scottish workplace deaths in agriculture
- UK Company Prosecuted by HSE Fires Health & Safety Warning to Construction Industry
- UK Farmers Urged to Review Health & Safety Measures
- UK Occupational Cancer Campaign Gains International Support
- Updated guidance to help protect workers’ safety
- Warning For Workers Being Exposed To Silica Dust
- Waste and recycling continues to pose a danger to workers
- Waste company prosecuted after worker loses arm
- Welcome drop in major workplace injuries
- Window and door manufacturer fined after worker killed
- Work-related deaths up 70% in Scotland
- Work-Related Injury and Ill-Health Statistics
- Worker crushed between two skips
- Worker injured by falling roofing material
- Worker Suffers Life-Changing Injuries After Fall From Height
- Workers continue to suffer fractures at work
- Workers forced to pay for own safety equipment
- Workers need continued protection against ‘sharps’
- Workers Put at Risk by Dangerous Driving
- Workers Sustain Serious Hand Injuries
- Workers' Memorial Day
- Workers' Safety in Fashion Industry Needs to Improve
- Workplace accident victims now face an uphill struggle
- Workplace accidents cause loss of limbs
- Workplace Vehicles are a Common Cause of Work Related Accidents
- £290,000 paid out by Nottingham University Hospitals due to negligence resulting in stillbirths
- £300,000 Offered in Compensation to Teachers Following Injuries in the Workplace