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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Daniela Miklova |Michael O'Brien |Michael Salau
On 26 February 2025, the Government Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report (the “Inquiry”) was presented to Parliament. The response can be read in full here. The Phase 2 Report, which concluded the Inquiry’s work, made 58 recommendations, of which 37 were directed at the government and 21 were directed at other bodies and institutions. The government has accepted all of the Inquiry’s findings.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Michael Salau |Joanna Lewis |Daniela Miklova |Kayleigh Rhodes
As part of our ‘Health and Safety at Work Act – 50 years on’ feature, Jo Lewis, Michael Salau and Daniela Miklova consider the HSE’s approach to enforcement action with a review of recent prosecutions. They explore the enforcement trends within the construction industry to minimise the risk of fatalities and non-fatal injuries within the workplace.
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Oct 15, 2024 | lexology.com | Michael Salau |Joanna Lewis |Daniela Miklova |Kayleigh Rhodes
As part of our ‘Health and Safety at Work Act – 50 years on’ feature, Jo Lewis, Michael Salau and Daniela Miklova consider the HSE’s approach to enforcement action with a review of recent prosecutions. They explore the enforcement trends within the construction industry to minimise the risk of fatalities and non-fatal injuries within the workplace.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Sheena Sood |Joanna Lewis |Michael Salau
On 4 September 2024, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry published its highly anticipated Phase 2 Report into the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017 (the “Report”)[1]. At the centre of this is the significant human tragedy – the fire resulted in 72 deaths, injuring and impacting many others. The Public Inquiry’s Phase 1 report, detailing the events on the night of the fire and comprising over 850 pages across four volumes, was published in late October 2019.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Joanna Lewis |Michael Salau |Daniela Miklova
Sadly, construction worker fatalities continue to rise in the UK. The recent annual Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics show that construction worker fatalities are 70 percent higher than pre-covid levels, whilst across other industries surveyed, the statistics were broadly in line with pre-covid levels. The construction industry remains the most dangerous sector to work in despite a continuous programme of health and safety awareness campaigns.
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Sep 10, 2024 | lexology.com | Joanna Lewis |Michael Salau |Daniela Miklova
Sadly, construction worker fatalities continue to rise in the UK. The recent annual Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics show that construction worker fatalities are 70 percent higher than pre-covid levels, whilst across other industries surveyed, the statistics were broadly in line with pre-covid levels. The construction industry remains the most dangerous sector to work in despite a continuous programme of health and safety awareness campaigns.
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May 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Michael Salau |Emily Hunt |eMily Hunt
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has won a landmark legal challenge against the freeholder, Grey GR, by obtaining its first Remediation Order under the Building Safety Act 2022. A Remediation Order (“RO”) requires a freeholder to remedy specific relevant defects in a specified time on a building.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Michael Salau |Andrew Croft |Joanna Lewis |Charlie Bayliss
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has published its 3-year strategic Plan. The three year plan, sets out how the BSR will carry out building safety functions between 2023 and 2026. The plan describes what work the BSR will deliver, how they will deliver this, and what they aim to achieve.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Michael Salau |Charlie Bayliss
DEFRA’s consultation on the strengthening of environmental sanctions in April and May 2023 found in favour of two significant changes: to remove the £250,000 cap on Variable Monetary Penalties (VMPs), meaning penalties can be unlimited, and to introduce unlimited VMPs as a civil sanction in the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016. These changes will greatly increase the sanctioning powers of environmental agencies.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Andrew Croft |Joanna Lewis |Felicity Hird |Michael Salau
Secondary legislation[1] is now in force which provides important clarification as to how the new roles of the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor will operate under the Building Safety Act. Regulation 6 inserts a new Part 2A into the Building Regulations which sets out the arrangements a client must make, including the appointment of a Principal Designer and a Principal Contractor, and provisions as to the duties and competence of persons working on a project.
