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Firms Agree Potters Bar Liability

Network Rail and the rail maintenance company Jarvis have accepted legal responsibility for claims brought over the Potters Bar rail crash. In a joint announcement the two firms said accepting liability would provide 'comfort and assistance' to victims of the May 2002 crash. A Jarvis spokesperson added the move did not mean the firm was to blame for the accident, which killed seven people and injured 76 when a train derailed at Potters Bar station in Hertfordshire in 20...

News | 4 May 2004
Contractors: are you watching them?

...t contractors are up to, but this has left them open to the threat of damaging prosecutions. The inescapable truth of the matter is that you -- as the client -- are responsible. Katy Brown reports. E mploying contractors to carry out specific tasks in the workplace is now common practice in large firms; from cleaning to construction, people are being brought in to fulfil certain roles not performed by employed staff. This is beneficial to employers, who do not need to employ individuals to carry out these tasks. But it does bring its own set of confusions. Jobs that are contracted out can be part...

Magazine issue | 16 May 2007