...examination and testing, which could not be ‘unknown’ and it would be artificial to expect the experts and the Claimant to give evidence without reference to such matters. Further, that...
...examination and testing, which could not be ‘unknown’ and it would be artificial to expect the experts and the Claimant to give evidence without reference to such matters. Further, that...
...decision can be read here. The Assistant Coroner has now issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report dated 20 April 2021, which can be read here. This comes against a...
...available Home Office website. He observed at §11 that: “it is common ground that I can and should take into account, in assessing damages for distress, awards made for psychiatric...
To download a PDF copy of this article, please click here. On 12th January 2022, judgment was handed down in Andrew Chell v Tarmac Cement and Lime Limited [2022] EWCA...
The first edition of ‘Controlling Noise at Work’ was published in 1998, and was founded on the earlier Noise at Work Regulations 1989. It was comprehensively revised in 2005 in advance...
...establish one of the two components, though both can be present. The staging (see below) is also made separately for each hand. The question of whether either HAVS component is...
...case commented afterwards: “This was a case of the company completely failing to grasp the importance of managing their employees’ exposure to vibration, whilst using hand-held tools. Employers should conduct...
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...Laws LJ held that: at common law, wrongdoers who together cause “a single indivisible injury” are each liable to compensate the Claimant for the whole of the injury suffered (see...
...for that particular job; whether the work is particularly intellectually or emotionally demanding for the employee; whether the demands of this employee were unreasonable when compared with the demands of...
...asbestos in the course of employment at the Defendant’s Ardeer factory in Scotland in the early 1970s and had died of mesothelioma as a result in January 2019. The Claimant...