With a particularly strong maritime and rail-related health and safety practice,
Outer Temple Chambers is also highly regarded as 'the go-to set for corporate defendants and company officers facing health and safety investigations and prosecutions‘.
Ben Compton KC is representing the explosives contractors in ongoing proceedings arising from the Didcot Power Station collapse in 2016, which resulted in four fatalities. In a separate matter,
James Leonard KC successfully defended a construction company in a health and safety case arising from a fatal accident on a construction site.
Oliver Powell is routinely instructed in maritime-related health and safety cases, and is prosecuting for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in MCA v Intrada Ships Management Ltd (’Scot Carrier’), a long-running case concerning a double fatality following a fatal vessel collision in 2021.