Appealing Enforcement Notices
Wednesday 20 July 2022
17.30 – 18.30 by zoom
The HSLA invites you to a member event on appealing enforcement notices.
Harry Vann, from Crown Office Chambers, will be providing an update session on appealing enforcement notices. This will include a refresher on the main grounds of appeal. It will also focus on a case study involving a prohibition notice served on a company prohibiting the use of a cut-off saw on the basis of the HSE inspector’s opinion that the creation of silica dust involved a risk of serious personal injury. This case also featured some useful technical points about the time period for serving an appeal and the HSE’s publication on Workplace Exposure Limits. Harry will also highlight issues in cases concerning the appeal of enforcement notices relating to fire safety.
Programme: 17.30 – 18.30
NB Tickets must be booked before 13.00, 20/7/22
Introduction:
Colin Moore, Member of the HSLA Events Committee
Presentation:
Harry Vann: Appealing Enforcement Notices
Followed by a Q&A session
Speaker’s brief biography:
Harry Vann
Barrister, Crown Office Chambers
Harry joined Crown Office Chambers for pupillage in 2003 and became the fourth member of the Criminal Regulatory team in 2008.
His expertise in the field of health and safety covers a range of industries from brewing to baking, solvents to steeplejacking, hardware to housebuilding and aggregates to aerospace. He represents companies, officers and employees of corporate entities of all sizes from PLCs to sole traders in the Criminal Courts, the Employment Tribunal and the Coroner’s Court.
Harry has appeared in some of the most important cases in the field, including acting for WTL in the successful dismissal of the Bosley Mill manslaughter prosecution (R. v. WTL & Boden [2021] EWCA Crim 618) and Tangerine Confectionary Limited v. HSE [2011] EWCA Crim 2015. This year, he acted for the Managing Director in the Alutrade Limited manslaughter prosecution, in which a non-causative plea to s.37 resulted in a fine and is currently instructed in three other manslaughter cases to be contested in the next twelve months.
He is instructed for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, and he has an extensive fire safety practice, both in prosecutions and appeals against enforcement notices.
He won Chambers & Partners Health & Safety Junior of the Year in 2021.
Harry was appointed Criminal Recorder on the North Eastern Circuit in 2021.
Harry lives in York with a Judge and their daughter.
Please note: This event will be recorded and made available to HSLA members after the event, on the HSLA website.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
