Dale Collins

Insurance and public risk

Dale is a partner specialising in regulatory crime, particularly health and safety, environmental and food safety breaches. He is a solicitor advocate, holding his Higher Rights qualification, and has been a criminal advocate for over 25 years, appearing before Magistrates’ and Crown Courts and other tribunals.

Dale, as a recognised leader in health and safety, was for over 10 years a prosecutor advocate for the Health and Safety Executive, representing it in many of its largest cases and was their chosen advocate for quarry related investigations. He now devotes all of his time to assisting and representing multi-national businesses and SMEs in relation to regulatory investigations and prosecutions.

He is regularly instructed in fatal accident matters assisting throughout the investigation and representing the organisation at the inquest and court hearings. He holds an MA in Environmental Law and is instructed regionally by manufacturing and farming businesses regarding environmental breaches and pollution incidents.

His vast experience leads to him being invited to speak at national conferences where he speaks on various health and safety topics and the practical effects of a regulatory investigation and prosecution.

MA Environmental Law 1995 Solicitor – admitted September 1986 LSF - 1984 BA (Hons) - 1983