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Opinion
The difference between tobacco and asbestos?
Today if anyone quoted from the tobacco manufacturer’s scientific evidence that smoking does not cause lung cancer they would probably be laughed out of court. However, despite their own knowledge...
July 20, 2016
Opinion
Science and asbestos or simple reality?
Examination of the various studies produced and funded by the asbestos industry show a long history of manipulation of scientific data to postulate that anything but chrysotile causes mesothelioma. Time...
July 6, 2016
Opinion
mesothelioma
Action Mesothelioma Day
Action Mesothelioma Day is a chance to remember the more than 2500 people who died of this disease last year in the UK. We should also think about the similar...
June 29, 2016
Opinion
Asbestos victims of terror attacks
I had the privilege of meeting Jonathan Woods and acted for him in respect of his claim for mesothelioma arising out of his exposure to asbestos at the Grand Hotel,...
June 27, 2016
Opinion
The myth of safe white asbestos
Reading this article got me thinking about the ongoing threat posed to members of the public by irresponsible and unlicensed asbestos removal and disposal. It seems fly-tipping of asbestos is...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer categorises asbestos as a Group 1 Carcinogen, meaning that it is definitely carcinogenic to humans. All types of asbestos cause mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is...
May 27, 2016
Opinion
Helping Hospices
This year more than 400 gardens across England and Wales will be open during the NGS Festival Garden Weekend from 4 to 5 June 2016.
May 25, 2016
Opinion
Insurers save at the expense of victims
The scheme was set up in 2014 to compensate those suffering from mesothelioma who were negligently exposed to asbestos at work but could not trace their ex-employers or their insurers...
May 23, 2016
Opinion
Right of direct action against insurers to become a reality… at last!
The Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 received Royal Assent on 25 March 2010 yet is still not in force. Implementation of the Act has been delayed because of...
Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes – the new “miracle fibre”
During a recent flight, I was chatting to the passenger next to me about work. When I told her I handled cases for people who have developed mesothelioma due to...
Workers’ Memorial Day, 28.4.16: Remember the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living!
Our work as industrial disease lawyers makes us acutely aware of the consequences of employers’ disregard for the health and safety of their workers as we represent those who, through...
The 1931 Asbestos Industry Regulations were designed to protect the safety of workers in the Asbestos Industry and factories from the risks to health from working with asbestos.
April 26, 2016
Opinion
TTIP and the return of asbestos
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a series of trade negotiations that have been going on for three years in near complete secrecy between the EU and US.
April 22, 2016
Opinion
Asbestos in schools
The recent closure of a school in Blurton, Stoke on Trent because of the dangers of asbestos in the building highlights a problem that is likely to get worse.
April 21, 2016
Blog
asbestos
mesothelioma
£5m for National Mesothelioma Centre of Excellence
The Chancellor’s Budget announcement that the government would give £5m to establish a National Mesothelioma Centre of Excellence was greeted with surprise by many who work with asbestos disease victims...
April 15, 2016
Opinion
Update on Pleural Plaques
In Scotland a recent test case doubled the level of compensation for a worker who developed pleural plaques on his lungs as a result of being exposed to asbestos. His...
April 12, 2016
Opinion
Court finally rights a mathematical wrong
In the fatal mesothelioma case of Knauer v MOJ [2014] EWHC 2553 (QB) the trial judge held that he was bound to follow the approach adopted by the House of...
February 25, 2016
Blog
Adding Insult to Injury: asbestos related lung cancer sufferers face further setback
The Court of Appeal decision in Heneghan v Manchester Dry Docks Ltd and ors has been hailed as a victory by insurers.
Mesothelioma sufferers in armed forces to receive lump sum compensation
The Ministry of Defence has finally bowed to pressure and recognised that it needed to act to correct an obvious injustice in the current treatment of service men and women…
The Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team (DAST) has won a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project which will record the ways in which asbestos has affected workers in…
