HSLA Events Programme 2023

In partnership with Henderson Chambers, the HSLA invites you to an in-person event to consider:

A view from the Judiciary: Advocacy in the Court of Appeal

Updates on bad character in H&S cases and Article 2 Inquests

Thursday 8 June 2023

Venue:
Henderson Chambers, 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London EC4Y 9DB

Programme:

17:30 – 18:00 Registration and refreshments

18:00 – 18:05 Welcome and Introductions

Rachel Tandy, Henderson Chambers (event Chair)

18:05 – 19:15 Talks and Q&A

Excellent advocacy: A consumer’s view (from the Court of Appeal)
Lord Justice Dingemans

Character evidence in H&S: the good, the bad and the ugly. A short update on admissibility and directions
Tim Green KC, Henderson Chambers

Article 2 Inquests: keeping pace with Strasbourg, but doing no more than that.
James Purnell, Henderson Chambers

Q&A

1915 – 2030 Refreshments and Networking

Event Chair:

Rachel Tandy

Henderson Chambers

Rachel has experience across the full range of health & safety matters. She has acted for a wide variety of businesses, and regularly appears in both the civil and criminal courts on her own account and she is on the HSE’s List of Specialist Regulatory Advocates.

Speaker biographies:

Lord Justice Dingemans

Justice Dingemans was called to the Bar in 1987 and made a Queen’s Counsel in 2002. Prominent moments in his legal career included appearing in constitutional cases from around the Commonwealth, including acting in pro bono death row cases in the Privy Council for persons appealing against their sentence of death, such as Bernard v The State [2007] UKPC; [2007] 2 Cr App R. 22, and against the constitutionality of the mandatory sentence of death, such as Miguel v Trinidad and Tobago [2011] UKPC 14; [2012] 1 AC 361. He was leading counsel to the Hutton Inquiry in 2003 and acted for the Express and Star newspapers in the Leveson Inquiry in 2011-2012.

He was appointed a High Court Judge in 2013 and sat in the Queen’s Bench Division (now King’s Bench Division). He was a Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit from 2014 to 2018. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2019 and has been the Vice-President of the Queen’s Bench Division (now King’s Bench Division) since February 2020. He was appointed as lead judge for International Relations, which took effect from February 2021.

Lord Justice Dingemans played Rugby Union for a number of years and was a judicial officer at the Rugby World Cups in 2015 and 2019.

Tim Green KC

Henderson Chambers

Tim is widely acknowledged by Chambers UK and Legal 500 as being one of the Bar’s leaders in health and safety work.  He has been instructed in the most complex and serious investigations concerning corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter as well as the full spectrum of HSWA offences.

Tim often advises very large corporate clients on the health and safety aspects of high-value commercial disputes.

James Purnell

Henderson Chambers

James is recommended as a leading junior in the Legal 500 for his expertise in Health & Safety and Environment litigation. James has considerable experience in representing clients’ interests at coroner’s inquests and for the purpose of submissions concerning reports to prevent future deaths. James regularly represents companies and individuals facing regulatory investigations and prosecutions. In addition to prosecuting and defending cases in the criminal courts.