HEALTH & SAFETY PROFILE
Michael Lemmy commenced his career at the Bar in a mixed set undertaking criminal cases in the Crown Court and Magistrates Court and personal injury cases in the County Court. He now specialises in personal injury cases with a particular specialism in employers’ liability.
Michael Lemmy has been instructed by Solicitors acting for insurance companies on behalf of Defendants charged with offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Cases include a difficult case involving the collapse of a chimney stack, in a large Victorian house, which resulted in the death of a labourer who was working underneath it; and the prosecution of a farmer with respect to a farm labourer who drank from an old pop bottle which contained an organo-phosphate sheep dip.
Michael Lemmy is a skilled trial advocate who is accredited by the Bar Council to teach advocacy on the Bar Vocational Course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Health & Safety CV
