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On 23rd June 2021, at the Oxford Magistrates’ Court, one of the UK’s leading egg packing companies pleaded guilty to nine charges under the Eggs and Chicks (England) Regulations 2009. The offences each concerned failure to comply with provisions relating to the…
On 12 June 2020, two defendants were sentenced for their participation in a scheme to secure over £2.7m in Government grant aid under the Countryside Productivity Scheme. False quotations, in the names of genuine businesses, were supplied to the Rural Payments Agency…
On 10th May 2019 at Thames Magistrates’ Court, a meat cutting plant was fined for obstructing food safety inspectors acting in the execution of their duties, contrary to the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013.
On two occasions in 2018, inspectors…
On 13th September 2016, the Senior Coroner for Essex conducted an inquest into the death of Gary Page. Mr Page died of a myocardial infarction (a heart attack) at home in the early morning of 25th February 2016. On the evening of…
William Dean, Sarah Hunwick and Helen Pooley attended the Fareham offices of Slater Gordon Solutions on 26th April 2016 to provide training on commonly-encountered issues in road traffic claims.
Sarah spoke about accidents arising out of low-velocity impact (LVI) collisions and…
UAB Transagma v Director of Border Revenue [2016] UKFTT 126 (TC) involved a decision by UK Border Force not to restore a vehicle in which 166,000 cigarettes were found. The cigarettes attracted duty of over £35,000. The vehicle was seized under the…
Costs budgeting will be disapplied in all clinical negligence cases listed in the Queen’s Bench Division from October 2015 to January 2016.
The disapplication was suggested by Lord Justice Jackson in his Harbour Lecture on 13th May 2015. He noted that in…
William Dean successfully resisted an appeal against a refusal to grant relief from sanctions in a case involving the guidance in Denton v. TH White Limited [2014] EWCA Civ 906.
The matter arose out of the Appellant’s failure to file an appeal…