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:
What is Noise? Noise in a colloquial sense might mean sound which is unwanted. For example, noise coming from a busy road. A dictionary definition describes it as a sound, especially which is loud, unpleasant or causes disturbance. However, in noise induced hearing loss claims what is relevant is not whether the...
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Valerie Bannister (Widow and Executrix of the Estate of Dennis Charles Bannister, Deceased) v Freemans PLC [2020] EWHC 1256 (QB), before Geoffrey Tattersall QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court Introduction This was a mesothelioma claim where, ultimately, the Claimant lost on the facts and so did...
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Gregory v H J Haynes Limited [2020] EWHC 911 (Ch), on appeal before Mr Justice Mann Introduction: This was an appeal from a decision by a District Judge who had declined to use the discretion to disapply the limitation period as available under section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980. The...
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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
- Smith v Ford
- R (on the Application of Wandsworth Borough Council) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Inner West London
- Pinnegar v Kellogg & ICI