House of Lords rule on work-related suicides

• Author:
• Rowley Ashworth Solicitors

The House of Lords has made a landmark ruling regarding employers liability in suicide cases by ruling that the widow of a man who killed himself six years after an industrial accident should be compensated by his former employers IBC Vehicles.

By a unanimous decision on 27 February the House of Lords dismissed IBC’s appeal and upheld a Court of Appeal judgment of March 2006 that the company was responsible for the death of Thomas Corr.

In 1996 prior Mr Corr was disfigured by an acc... (376 more words)

Member login

If you are a member of the Workplace Law
Network, please enter your details below

My email address
My password
Keep me logged in:
	I've forgotten my password

Protecting your data

We take data protection very seriously. We will never share your data with third parties. We process data in accordance with: the Data Protection Act 1998; the 11th edition of the British Code of Advertising, Sales Promotion and Marketing Practice; and the DMA Direct Marketing Code of Practice.