Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

In Easton v B&Q [2015] EWHC 880, a High Court judge confirmed that even the fact that an employer knows their employee is taking medication, such as anti-depressants, is not enough on its own to alert them to a need to take special care of their mental well-being and so avoid a claim for negligence if their condition is made worse by their work.

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