Paul Renteurs has featured in a documentary on Discovery Plus concerning the investigation of the Shoreham Airshow crash in 2015. ‘Fatal Flight: Shoreham‘ explores the circumstances of the crash itself, the investigation that followed, and the legal proceedings in both the criminal and coronial courts. Appearing alongside families of those who lost their lives in […]
Pret A Manger was fined £800,000 for a health and safety offence, relating to an incident when a member of staff became locked in a small walk-in freezer in a remote kitchen at Victoria Coach Station, following the failure of the door release mechanism. The member of staff was hospitalised with suspected hypothermia having been found […]
After a 4-week trial in front of Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb the jury returned not guilty verdicts in less than an hour. Jim was instructed by Danny McShee, Marta Tomlinson and George Emery of Kennedys.
The long running case of Maguire has finally been concluded in a Supreme Court judgment handed down last week. The bottom line is and remains that the threshold for Article 2 remains high in cases involving health and social care. The case is particularly helpful for its detailed and comprehensive analysis of the authorities and […]
Paul Renteurs represented North East construction company Tolent Construction Limited (TCL) in a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The case concerned an incident at a building site operated by TCL in the Jesmond area of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in which a structural insulating panel became detached from a crane operated by TCL, causing […]
