Jim Sturman QC is recognised as one of the UK\’s best health and safety barristers and is regularly instructed to advise and represent clients (both corporate and individuals) in relation to enforcement action by the Health & Safety Executive (\”HSE\”).
Jim acted for a Director of a building company acquitted of all offences after the death of an employee killed after a fall from height whilst at work.
Managing Director acquitted of breaches of health and safety legislation. Jim acted for X who was prosecuted after the death of an employee in an industrial accident. The Company was charged with corporate manslaughter and two of the Directors with Health and Safety offences. Jim’s client was acquitted of all charges he faced after a [...]
Advised a company following the death of one of their employees after a crane collapsed.
Jim was instructed to defend a company following a workplace fatality when an employee was crushed to death in a hopper he was trying to clear.
Jim was instructed following the dealth of a man who had stepped into an industrial over to clean it but who suffered fatal levels of arsenic poisoning.
Acted for the COO of a large company who found himself prosecuted as an individual alongside his employer after a fatality in the workplace. Eventually the prosecution were persuaded to offer no evidence against Jim’s client.
Jim acted for a company in relation to its potential liability following the rail crash at Potters Bar.
Acted for the defence in the HSE prosecution arising from the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot.
Jim regularly advises and acts for the defence in Health and Safety Executive prosecutions, both before and after charge. Jim acts for companies and for bereaved families at inquests, and is often retained to advise in many cases involving fatalities at work. He is a down-to-earth barrister who is really good, and has loads of [...]
Jim Sturman KC | 2 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4BU | DX: 17 | Tel: +44 (0) 20 30950444 | Fax: 020 72421738 | clerks@2bedfordrow.co.uk
