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Jim Hester – 31 March 2021 – Share
This third article in relation to the Noise Immission level (NIL) considers some of the more complicated or arguable features....
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Jim Hester – 25 March 2021 – Share
This article considers how the NIL is used within the Coles guidelines. This is the second article in this series in relation...
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Jim Hester – 18 March 2021 – Share
The basic requirements for a diagnosis of Noise Induced Hearing Loss consist of 2 elements: audiology which is consistent with...
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Jim Hester – 13 January 2021 – Share
A narrow point that occasionally arises is how '3-years' is calculated for the purposes of limitation. In accident cases or...
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Jim Hester – 7 January 2021 – Share
This case is the latest in a series where the issue as to the reliability and credibility of historic witness...
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Jim Hester – 19 November 2020 – Share
Hamilton v NG Bailey Limited [2020] EWHC 2910 (QB) provides a useful view of how a court might approach quantum...
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Jim Hester – 5 November 2020 – Share
Anyone who has ever read a medical report in a noise induced hearing loss case will be familiar with the...
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Jim Hester – 14 October 2020 – Share
Occupational Deafness has been a prescribed disease since 1975. However, this consideration rarely features in litigated personal injury NIHL claims....
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Jim Hester – 1 October 2020 – Share
In Holmes v S & B Concrete [2020] EWHC 2277 (QB) a novel argument was raised in relation to limitation...
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Jim Hester – 23 September 2020 – Share
Smith v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWHC 1954 (QB) concerns a claim for asbestosis. Both parties' medical experts had...
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