{"id":235,"date":"2005-10-08T22:45:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-08T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T22:45:24","slug":"role-of-judges-sentencing-powers-unlimited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Role of judges, sentencing powers unlimited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7th October 2005 Old Bailey, London <br \/>Mr Justice Mackay imposed a record fine of <strong>\u00a310 million<\/strong> on the rail maintenance company <strong>Balfour Beatty<\/strong> that was implicated in the <strong>Hatfield<\/strong> train crash. <\/p>\n<p>The previous record in an English court of \u00a32 million was imposed on Thames Trains after the 1999 Paddington rail crash. A \u00a315 million pound fine was imposed Transco PLC in august 2005 at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh <\/p>\n<p>The judge said Balfour Beatty had been responsible for &#8220;one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence in a high-risk industry I have ever seen&#8221;. <strong>The incident at Hatfield resulted in 4 deaths and 102 injuries<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7th October 2005 Old Bailey, London Mr Justice Mackay imposed a record fine of \u00a310 million on the rail maintenance company Balfour Beatty that was implicated in the Hatfield train crash. The previous record in an English court of \u00a32 million was imposed on Thames Trains after the 1999 Paddington rail crash. A \u00a315 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}