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29 November 2018 / Laura Martin
Issue: 7819 / Categories: Features , Health & safety , Personal injury
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Assessing the risks: an expert’s view

Laura Martin recommends adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to occupational & industrial disease claims

  • Expert evidence: complex cases need a broader approach.

The possibility of occurrence of occupational disease and ill health is now widely recognised to extend into every industry and business in the UK. The awareness of health, safety and wellbeing matters amongst the general population has also never been greater. This brings new challenges in the provision of expert evidence; complex cases need a broader approach which Strange Strange & Gardner (SS&G), long established consulting forensic engineers, have adopted.

Occupational asthma & dermatitis

The incidence of occupational asthma and dermatitis is continuing at a steady level amongst both the working and general populations. It is important to look at the implications of chemical, biological, behavioural and procedural aspects of these problems, which are all potential considerations in reporting on the causes of these conditions. Claims in the healthcare sector, such as problems with the respiratory system and skin, are increasing. The key is to establish causation of each problem

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Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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