Product liability and safety

Blake Morgan’s regulatory risk and compliance lawyers advise on product liability and safety issues.

Our team is able to provide you with the full Our lawyers have advised clients in relation • Advising a large national company in spectrum of legal services required to deal to the following product safety issues: relation to a public inquiry concerning with this complex and commercially sensitive • Defective electrical goods for both industry product safety area. Our work advising regulatory agencies and consumers • Advising a large company on operational and public bodies puts our team in an ideal • Supply of non-compliant machinery aspects of a national market surveillance position to provide you with bespoke and and recall programme objective advice in relation to product liability • Toy safety and safety issues. • Advising an international manufacturer, • Defective stationery importer and retailer of small consumer We regularly advise companies subject to • Contaminated food, food supplements and appliances in relation to food and electrical criminal investigations and prosecutions food contact materials safety issues and corrective measures initiated by enforcing authorities, and companies involved in civil litigation arising • Medical equipment • Advising a global infant products brand from product issues. We also provide effecting product replacement and Our work falls into the following areas: compliance advice for both established and corrective measures to product line start-up businesses. • Criminal defence - in criminal because of health concerns following investigations and criminal prosecutions reports of sickness • Coroners’ investigations and inquests • Advising a producer and retailer as to EU wide reporting obligations and corrective • Appeals against enforcement notices measures in relation to a consumer good “The team is very • Reputation management posing an unacceptable risk of injur responsive to the • Proceedings under the Enterprise Act 2002 demands placed on • Raids and searches • Advice relating to compliance and them and always reporting, and corrective action provides timely programmes (including recall) • Defending and pursuing civil claims for advice and support.” compensation for breach of contract/ negligence/strict liability Legal 500 2020 Contact us Examples of the instructions handled @BlakeMorganLLP by members of Blake Morgan’s product safety team include: Blake Morgan LLP Our client base includes: • Advising a PLC in relation to an EU wide Blake Morgan LLP • UK trading entities of large multinationals recall of consumer products following a w blakemorgan.co.uk and PLCs serious injury to a member of the public 020 7405 2000 • Large national ‘household name • Advising an SME in relation to the recall companies’ of non-compliant stationery products across the UK • SMEs, micro businesses and start-ups • Advising a food business in relation to • Directors concerned with individual liabilities a contamination incident, and subsequent • Regulatory Agencies and Public Bodies international recall operation • Defective product correction advice to manufacturer and business-to-business retailer effecting product replacement of a defective electronics part produced by its sub-contractor • Advising an end producer of product containing a defective component as to its defence and pursuit of contractual claims up and down the supply chain • Successful defence for a global pharmaceutical company of a defective product claim in relation to prescription drugs.

“We regularly advise Contact our Regulatory Risk and companies subject to Compliance Team criminal investigations and prosecutions Claire Rawle Partner initiated by enforcing E: [email protected] authorities, companies T: 029 2068 6144 M: 07909 922577 involved in civil litigation arising from Tom Walker Senior Associate Barrister product issues.” E: [email protected] T: 029 2068 6166 M: 07813 307733

Justin Weare Partner E: [email protected] T: 020 7814 6917 M: 07823 347557 Offices in: Delme Griffiths Reading Legal Director E: [email protected] T: 029 2068 6199 M: 07909 934318 Contact us Joanne Thompson Senior Associate @BlakeMorganLLP E: [email protected] Blake Morgan LLP T: 029 2068 6133 Blake Morgan LLP M: 07836 220135 w blakemorgan.co.uk 020 7405 2000 Steve Parish Case Supervisor E: [email protected] T: 029 2068 6195

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