Industrial Disease: Updates and Library
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I provide regular Industrial Disease Updates – you can Sign Up to receive notifications when these Updates are published. There is also a Library of useful documents.
This site is primarily designed to assist solicitors who are involved in Industrial Disease litigation. Busy practitioners are kept up-to-date with matters of interest regarding Industrial Disease. The emphasis is on practical assistance for Industrial Disease lawyers.
There are also downloads and links to useful documents within the Library sections.
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Updates on Industrial Disease matters:
Recent Updates:
In this Asbestosis case, both limitation and causation were in dispute. The Judgment appears in full at Balls v Reeve and Thurlow [2021] EWHC 751 (QB). The claim was heard by David Pittaway QC, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court. Background In this Asbestosis claim the Claimant...
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This Judgment concerned an appeal from the Claimant's unsuccessful Third Party disclosure Application: Sparkes (as personal representative of Pauline Sparkes, deceased) v London Pension Funds Authority and Leigh Academies Trust [2021] EWHC 1265 (QB), per Murray J. Neither Defendants nor the third party appeared at the Appeal hearing. The Background Facts...
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This Judicial Review case was brought by the claimant council following an inquest. The Inquest had concluded that one of the council's tenants had died as a result of malignant mesothelioma which had been caused by exposure to asbestos in one of the council’s properties. (The Queen on the application...
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Library of Industrial Disease documents:
Recently added documents:
- Sparkes (as personal representative of Pauline Sparkes, deceased) v London Pension Funds Authority and Leigh Academies Trust
- Smith v Secretary of State for Transport
- R (on the Application of Wandsworth Borough Council) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Inner West London
- Pinnegar v Kellogg & ICI
- Maguire v Harland and Wolff