The Privy Coun­cil has re­served its de­ci­sion on a land­mark fi­nal ap­peal over the time lim­it for the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Health and Safe­ty Au­thor­i­ty and Agency (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) to ini­ti­ate pros­e­cu­tions for health and safe­ty of­fences.

Five Law Lords re­served their judg­ment af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions at the Unit­ed King­dom Supreme Court Build­ing in Lon­don, Eng­land, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The out­come of the case is high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed as it would have a di­rect ef­fect on on­go­ing pros­e­cu­tions pur­sued by the au­thor­i­ty in­clud­ing a se­ries of par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tions be­fore the In­dus­tri­al Court and Mag­is­trate’s Court re­lat­ed to a div­ing tragedy at Paria’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022, which claimed the lives of four divers.