Nicholas Cotter in successful defence of care home client in health and safety case
16th January 2018
3PB Barrister Nicholas Cotter has successfully demonstrated before Lincoln Crown Court that his client was not responsible for causing the actual deaths of three residents arising from a breach of Health and Safety (non-employees) in a care home.
The Care Home had on advice admitted security and risk assessment failures linked to its care of the three residents and was fined £70,000.
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