Health & Safety
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 1
Contact number
(020) 7418 7000Chambers Review
Pinsent Masons offers an outstanding team in the health and safety space which has particular expertise advising leading corporations in the financial services, transport, energy and construction industries on a broad range of regulatory and litigation matters. The team is experienced across the range of health and safety prosecutions, including corporate manslaughter cases, and also offers its clients non-contentious services, including guidance and training on a whole host of health and safety issues. The team advises household-name healthcare providers, national house builders and leading manufacturers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is extremely diligent and professional with a wide breadth of knowledge."
"Pinsent Masons is a very good firm."
"I found Pinsent Masons to be well organised. The team is able to provide a clear structure to a complex case."
"They are very knowledgeable about complex health and safety matters."
"The team is extremely diligent and professional with a wide breadth of knowledge."
"Pinsent Masons is a very good firm."
"I found Pinsent Masons to be well organised. The team is able to provide a clear structure to a complex case."
"They are very knowledgeable about complex health and safety matters."
Notable Practitioners
Kevin Bridges maintains his strong reputation in the market. He handles a wide spectrum of matters including public inquiries, police investigations, prosecutions and regulatory compliance. He has experience advising clients on fatal incidents and corporate manslaughter cases.
"Kevin's strongest point is his overall strategy and visibility."
"He has a huge amount of experience."
Sean Elson focuses his practice on health and safety matters. He provides high-quality advice to clients on public inquiries and prosecutions relating to serious on-site incidents and manslaughter cases. He also has vast experience of providing counsel on investigations by fire authorities, the HSE and police.
Zoe Betts is regularly called upon to advise and defend clients in prosecutions and HSE and police investigations. She has experience providing guidance on fatal on-site incidents. Her practice includes a recent focus on representing clients in the waste industry.
Laura White regularly acts for clients such as insurance organisations and companies within the construction sector. She has assisted on a wide spectrum of issues including cases arising from workplace accidents and fatal incident inquiries. She is astute at providing counsel on HSE and police investigations.
"Laura asks and probes the right questions in a very good way. She is thorough, hard-working and all over the detail."
"Laura is very keen to assist on matters and is quick to respond to urgent issues. She is passionate about getting the right result for clients."