- Title
- Recent developments in personal liability of company officers for workplace safety breaches: Australian and UK decisions
- Creator
- Foster, Neil
- Relation
- 7th National OHS Regulatory Research Colloquium. Seventh National OHS Regulatory Research Colloquium (Canberra, A.C.T. 4-5 February, 2009)
- Relation
- http://ohs.anu.edu.au/publications/index.php
- Publisher
- National Research Centre for OHS Regulation
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- In 2005 I published an article summarising decisions to that point based specifically on the New South Wales (NSW) statutory provisions imposing personal liability on company officers for workplace safety breaches. Four years down the track the courts have been interpreting and developing the law, and it seems appropriate to see where we have come to now. That article also touched briefly on the law of other Australian States and the United Kingdom (UK), and in this update I will (again, briefly) indicate what has been happening in those jurisdictions. In particular, there are now some interesting UK decisions which show that the law in both NSW and the UK is developing in parallel and in ways which seem to be very effective. The possible implications of legislative proposals for future reform will also be touched on.
- Subject
- personal liability; company officers; workplace safety; Australia; United Kingdom
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919815
- Identifier
- uon:8987
- Language
- eng
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