Module description:
Indicative seminar topics:
- Introduction: The nature of health and safety law, prevention of accidents. The importance of disasters in the development of the law.
- Corporate Manslaughter at common law
- The Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007
- Corporate Criminal Liability in general
- The Hillsborough Disaster
- The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Coroners Courts
- Civil Liability: Negligence and Breach of Statutory Duty
- Stress and Harassment at Work
- Employment law and Health and Safety law
- International Labour Organisation and standards of protection throughout the world: International comparisons