LRD guides and handbook October 2024

Health and Safety Law 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.