Prosecuting Successfully – Practical Lessons and Insights

Webinar | Wednesday 15 May 2024 | 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 Hour

Join us for the next in our Prosecuting Successfully webinar series, as we look at recent prosecution cases and provide helpful tips and guidance.

For this webinar we are delighted to be joined by Andy Lucas from Bespoke Safety and Christopher Hopkins from No5 Chambers. 

Andy has extensive experience, previously working at the HSE and as a Health & Safety Manager at Birmingham City Council, as well as a practising H&S university lecturer. During his career he has overseen many investigations involving legal case preparation: conducting interviews under caution and negotiating the complexities of difficult investigations from initial visit to successful prosecution.

During this webinar Andy will place the focus on the practical application of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) in a health and safety accident investigation.

Chris is a specialist regulatory barrister who has represented clients on a range of Health & Safety cases. In this webinar Chris will discuss his experience of prosecuting for the HSE and other prosecutions including building regulations and tree preservation offences for a local authority.

Topics to be discussed:

• PACE Interviews
• Witness evidence
• Disclosure
• Sentencing
• Prosecuting for the HSE; building regulations breaches; Prosecuting Tree Preservation offences for a local authority

Speakers:

• Andy Lucas, Managing Director, Bespoke Safety Ltd
• Christopher Hopkins, Barrister, No5 Chambers
• Adam Kendall, Partner, Bevan Brittan
• Louise Mansfield, Legal Director, Bevan Brittan