Sentences with phrase «by exposure to asbestos at»

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Mr Wallace, the man at the centre of the BBC coverage, was awarded # 275,000 by Devon County Council as a result of being exposed to asbestos in a school where he worked after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a terminal cancer associated with asbestos exposure.

Workers can also be at risk who are not in the building industry from by - stander exposure to asbestos.

The health risks posed by asbestos exposure have been known for over a century, yet companies still choose to use and produce products containing the deadly substance putting employees and consumers at risk.

Even on Bookers argument if at least 75 % of Mesothelioma cases are asbestos related, if the victim can prove that their exposure to asbestos occurred as a result of negligence or breach of statutory duty and that this exposure materially contributed to their condition why should the victims or their families be required to additionally prove «beyond doubt» that it was caused by the asbestos exposure.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.