Christopher Kennedy QC

APPOINTMENTS

Queen's Counsel (2010)

HEALTH & SAFETY PROFILE

Chris has over 10 years' experience in the field of regulatory work. He is instructed by a number of local authorities with regard to their enforcement work and defends companies and individuals on a regular basis in the following areas:

• Prosecutions arising out of serious breaches of health and safety legislation
• prosecutions arising out of water-based and air-based pollution;
• litigation arising out of regulatory notices

Recent cases undertaken by Chris in this field include:

• the prosecution of a football club as a result of the death of a young motorcyclist at their ground;
• the representation of a local authority in proceedings to uphold an enforcement notice in relation to traffic movements;
• the defence of a demolition company in relation to death at work;
• the defence of a firm of auctioneers in relation to a death at premises for which they were responsible;
• the defence of a factory owner arising out of a death at a workplace
• the defence of a company arising out of the escape of toxic substances from its factory
• the defence of a local authority in a claim arising out of an incident of pollution for which it was responsible
• the defence of an individual in relation to a prosecution arising out of an explosion during the course of demolition work
• the representation of a railway company in relation to the death of a child on railway property

ADDITIONAL AREAS OF PRACTICE

Personal injury and Clinical Negligence
Professional disciplinary work

YEAR OF CALL
1989, Gray’s Inn

EDUCATION
BA (Hons), Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University

ASSOCIATIONS
Health and Safety Lawyer’s Association
Personal Injury Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association

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