EXPERT EVIDENCE THE KEY AS ENGINEERS FACE TRIAL OVER THEIR PRACTICES
Expert evidence is set to play a key role as professional engineers face the operational, reputational and legal consequences of a major incident safety breach.
Lawyers and judges will focus on their actions during an investigation into what can go wrong with a design that engineers have completed or an installation that they have technically supervised.
The day-long exercise aims to show how companies and individuals set about defending their conduct as a case is prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive and brought to Hearing in a Crown Court.
The event focuses on recent developments in corporate and personal liability in the wake of the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008.
Delegates at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' seminar will have the opportunity to witness cross-examination of expert and lay witnesses as well as have a say in the verdict handed down by the Court.
The seminar, staged by the Institution, is titled "When Things Go Wrong, What Happens Next'.
The event follows a similar seminar held in June last year and takes place at the Institution's Headquarters, 1 Birdcage Walk, in London on 13th May.
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