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QualitySolicitors Lindley Clough boosted by new legal network

A Bradford law firm has won hundreds of new clients through a pioneering initiative with a leading high street retailer to combat a threat to...

06th Nov 2012
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JUAC calls for improved asbestos management in schools

Leeds, 10 October 2011 – The nation’s education trade unions today renewed calls for government to proactively manage asbestos in schools following the recent publication...

06th Nov 2012
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Stockton Council told to alert former teachers and students about asbestos diseases

Leeds, 10 October 2011 – An asbestos victim’s son today called on local government to alert his late father’s former colleagues and pupils that they...

06th Nov 2012
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UK Supreme Court backs pleural plaques compensation law

Insurance companies have failed in a legal bid to scrap the right of people in Scotland to claim damages for an asbestos-related condition. The UK...

06th Nov 2012
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Call for warning after Teesside dad’s asbestos death

By Andy Passant, Evening Gazette 14 October 2011 AN ASBESTOS victim’s son has called on council chiefs to warn his late father’s former colleagues and...

06th Nov 2012
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Winn reelected to chair national asbestos watchdog

Julie Winn has been re-elected to Chair the Joint Union Asbestos Committee, a national union campaign group comprising representatives from the six major education sector...

06th Nov 2012
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£40K for TSSA member hit by a Porsche

A TSSA member who was struck by a Porsche as he walked to work has received a settlement of £40K thanks to support from his...

06th Nov 2012
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Work deaths increase show safety rot says union lawyer

A leading trade union lawyer today condemned the Health and Safety Executive’s report that there has been a fall in workplace accidents, saying the fall...

06th Nov 2012
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Equity member gets justice for workplace injury

An Equity member whose knee was badly injured in a workplace accident today called on performance artists who are not yet members to join the...

06th Nov 2012