Accidents, manslaughter and unintentional injuries
The firm assists its clients, both defendants and victims, in the course of criminal proceedings initiated following serious accidents, work related accidents or mass calamities.
It regularly acts for companies, their managers and natural persons with delegated authority, who are prosecuted for unintentional offences.
The team has a deep understanding of the legal aspects of these criminal proceedings as well as of related civil proceedings (employment litigations and legal claims for acknowledgement of the employer’s inexcusable wrongful act).
Examples include:
- Counsel to a corporate manager prosecuted for manslaughter following the death of a worker on a construction site.
- Counsel to a major retail operator following the electrocution of a department manager.
- Counsel to an employee prosecuted for unintentional injury with the aggravating circumstance of hit and run following a traffic accident.
- Assisting a leading insurance company following a fire in a Parisian hotel which resulted into many casualties.
- Counsel to the director of a public nursing home prosecuted for manslaughter following the death of a resident.