About The Course
This essential legal update gives you a deep dive into the latest UK case law and regulatory changes affecting workplace accident claims. Whether you're advising clients, managing risk, or defending claims, this course equips you with the insights and strategies you need, especially around contributory negligence, safe systems of work, mental health, and the evolving role of duty holders.
Why Attend?
The legal landscape around workplace accidents is changing rapidly. With major new decisions in 2025 and a renewed focus on contributory negligence, mental health, and vicarious liability, staying informed isn't optional - it's essential.
This one-day virtual course is designed for legal professionals who need to stay on the cutting edge of UK workplace accident law.
Whether you're managing claims, drafting policy, or advising clients - this course gives you the tools, legal insight, and case law updates you need to stay compliant, strategic, and defensible.
The Content
The full one-day course will cover:
Regulations and Case Law Update
- Work at height case law
- Role of duty holders
- The importance of risk assessment
- Understanding the hierarchy of measures required of duty holders
- Exposure in the workplace
- Core Duties
- Crush injuries in the workplace
- Safe systems of work
- Safe place of work
- Mental health at work
- Risk assessment
- Psychological harm and harassment in the workplace
- Vicarious liability
- Principles including enterprise risk
- The relationship and sufficiently close connection tests
- Independent contractors
- Contributory negligence
- Recent decisions and current trends
- Winning the argument
- Key principles
- Core decisions
- The different relationship between employer and employee and its role
- Causation
- The court of appeal on material contribution
Course Format
- Location: Available live online
- Duration: Full-day (6 CPD hours)
- Materials Provided: Full course notes and a recording to view at your leisure
- Extras: Access to live Q&A
Vice President, Law Society
Brett is a consultant solicitor with higher rights of audience for all civil proceedings. His specialism is civil procedure with a specific interest in digital change. He also provides training and consultancy services in relation to personal injury, technology and practice development.
He is also the Deputy Vice President Elect of the Law Society of England & Wales. He has been the president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on two occasions. He is a senior fellow of APIL and chair of the Senior Fellow Appointments Committee. He is involved in decisions in relation to interventions in civil proceedings recently including Belsner v Cam, Ho v Adelekun, and Hassam v Rabot along with judicial reviews by APIL of the fixed recoverable costs rules and the discount rate. He is a past member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the current legal expert member of the Online Procedure Rule Committee. He is a director of Medco and a member of the Official Injuries Advisory Group... view full biography