Edition 336
12/10/2021
Subjects- Measuring and Controlling Non-Continuous Noise Exposure: Gallagher v MC Realisations (Birmingham) Limited (2021)
- Occupational Asbestos Exposure at BBC Headquarters Sparks New Proceedings
- CMCs Contact 29 Million Adults over 12-Month Period – Exploiting ‘Consent’ Exemption to Persist with Unsolicited Communications
- Minster Law Purchases 100% of Irwin Mitchell’s Past and Future Low-Value PI Business
- WHO and ILO Jointly Publish Global Monitoring Report on Work-Related Burden of Disease
- Extend Homeworking for Office Workers, Say Occupational Asthma Experts
- Danish Study Associates Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Transport Noise with Dementia Diagnoses
Edition 335
13/09/2021
Subjects- Court Accedes to New Solicitors’ Guideline Hourly Rates Prior to Enforcement: Axnoller Events Ltd v Brake & Anor (Summary Costs Assessment) [2021] EWHC 2362 (Ch)
- MoJ Deems 39% Support for Court Fee Inflation Sufficient to Proceed with Proposals this Autumn
- Parliamentary Committee Launches Inquiry to Test Opinion on HSE’s Management of Asbestos in Public Buildings and Workplaces
- Plummeting NIHL Claimant Enquiries Responsible for General Decline in Number of Insurance Record Searches, Says ELTO
- Legionella Outbreak on Thameslink Network Prompts Fear of a First Documented Case of Legionnaires’ Disease on a Train
- Occupational Asbestos Exposure and Kidney Cancer – A Causal Relationship?
Edition 334
23/08/2021
Subjects- Pushing the Boundaries of Causation in Disease Claims: Mather v Ministry of Defence [2021] EWHC 811 (QB)
- Experts’ Joint Statements Should Not Be ‘Overlong Overly Lawyered Documents’: Aderounmu v Colvin [2021 EWHC 2293 (QB)
- ‘Sliding Scale’ Approach to Diagnosing NIHL – A ‘Novel Battleground’?
- Master of the Rolls Sets 1 October 2021 Date for New Solicitors’ Guideline Hourly Rates
- Canadian Governmental Department Explores Link Between Occupational Noise Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease