John Pickering and Partners, Solicitors, work for victims of industrial disease such as mesothelioma and asbestosis, occupational asthma, vibration white finger, upper limb disorder, occupational stress, dermatitis, and noise induced deafness.
We work for victims of catastrophic injuries, particularly head injury and spinal injury, caused by road accidents or accidents at work. We work for victims of medical negligence, and have a special interest in cerebral palsy. Click the buttons on the left of this page for information and advice.
NEWS: Successful claim - Our Client -v- Shell Tankers UK Ltd
Our client was in the Merchant Navy in the 1950s and early 1960s. He painted pipes lagged with asbestos. He swept dust off the pipes before painting them. Dust from the pipes got on his clothes and in his hair.
As a result of his exposure to asbestos he developed mesothelioma.
read more (added 2 May 2008)
NEWS: Successful claim against Spring Grove Laundry
Mrs S was exposed to asbestos at a laundry from 1954 to 1956. She worked in the office. Van drivers who collected overalls contaminated with asbestos dust came to her office to pay in money.
read more (added 2 May 2008)
NEWS: Pioneering international consultant dies of mesothelioma
Gerald Tyler, a multi award winning industrial Design Consultant, tragically died at the age of 60 in April 2004 of the asbestos related disease, mesothelioma.
read more (added 1 May 2008)
NEWS: Mesothelioma Claim – Witness Request
We are acting on behalf of the Widow of William Isaacs or “Bill” to his friends. He worked for a company called Thos. W. Ward Limited, in approximately 1962/3. During his time with this company he worked at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site near Preston. Thos. W. Ward Limited were involved in construction and demolition work.
read more (added 1 May 2008)
NEWS: Successful clothing case for pub worker who developed mesothelioma
We successfully represented the husband of a lady who developed mesothelioma and died after exposure to asbestos from local factory workers.
She ran the White Horse public house in Harefield with her husband between 1978-1996. Workers from local Cape factories used the pub. They came into the pub after work still wearing their overalls and work clothes, which were heavily soiled with asbestos. Unknown to them, they were bringing asbestos fibres into the pub.
read more (added 25 April 2008)
NEWS: Thought for 2008
I am proud to come from and work in a city where people have such a strong sense of justice and morality about what is right and what is wrong in society.
My job involves acting for people who have asbestos diseases. In 2002 my firm was representing 2 clients in a test case about a type of cancer caused by asbestos called mesothelioma. read more (added 24 April 2008)
NEWS: Asbestosis Claim – Witness Request
We are acting on behalf of the son of Thomas Sandford who worked for Foster Wheelers as a welders’ mate. He worked there between 1955-1961. He worked for Foster Wheelers at Fawley Oil Refinery on the construction of the cracker plant.
read more (added 11 April 2008)
NEWS: Clinical Negligence - M v Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust
The Claimant suffered injury to her hepatic ductal system following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy causing leakage of bile. When this was eventually recognised a further operation was performed to insert a T tube to allow the duct to heal. The tube however was removed too early causing a further bile leak and further surgery was required.
read more (added 11 April 2008)
NEWS: Call to Reform Coroner’s System For Families Of Mesothelioma Victims
The British Lung Foundation has called upon the government to improve the coroner’s system for families victims of the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma.
read more (added 3 April 2008)
NEWS: Compensation for Sufferers of Asbestos Related Pleural Plaques?
Hope has emerged for thousands of workers who have asbestos related pleural plaques. It has been reported that Government Ministers are attempting to negotiate a deal whereby insurers will pay up to £5000 to people with asbestos related pleural plaques.
read more (added 27 March 2008)
NEWS: Popcorn worker’s lung found in British food factory worker
A recent report in the medical journal, Thorax, has found that a 36 year old factory worker in the UK has developed a chronic lung condition called bronchiolitis obliterans or constrictive bronchiolitis.
read more (added 25 March 2008)
NEWS: Mesothelioma Help at Royal Oldham Hospital
Dr Cook from the Royal Oldham Hospital announced that their hospital has invested in new equipment to help with pain relief for sufferers of the asbestos related disease mesothelioma.
Known as a cordotomy, the technique is aimed at those in extreme pain where strong drugs such as morphine are ineffective.
read more (added 25 March 2008)
NEWS: Action Mesothelioma Day in Manchester
Action Mesothelioma Day in Manchester got off to a colourful start in Albert Square with a sponsored release of blue brown and white ballons representing the types of the deadly asbestos fibre which has affected the lives of so many. The ballons were released by widows who had lost their husband to mesothelioma.
read more (added 6 March 2008)
NEWS: Diffuse pleural thickening successful compensation claim against Cammell Lairds Shipyard
Mr M was exposed to asbestos during his previous employment with the Defendant (previously called Cammell Laird & Co (Shipbuilders & Engineers) Limited) as an apprentice joiner and then joiner/setter at their shipyard in Birkenhead, Wirral.
read more (added 5 March 2008)
NEWS: Asthma
In Britain, almost 3 million people have asthma. Many are children. Asthma can be mild, with only occasional troublesome symptoms, or it can be severe, requiring repeated hospital treatment.
read more (added 29 February 2008)
NEWS: Occupational asthma
Occupational asthma is asthma caused by something breathed in at work.
The 8 most common causes of occupational asthma and the common jobs where people are at risk from these substances are -
Isocyanates - spray painters, metal or electrical processors, vehicle manufacture and mechanics, plastics/foam workers.
read more (added 29 February 2008)
NEWS: Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer nearly always caused by asbestos. It is usually a tumour of the pleura, which is the lining between your lung and your rib cage, but it can sometimes affect your peritoneum, the lining between your bowel and the cavity of your abdomen. On rare occasions, it may affect other parts of the body. New drugs are being developed and tested in clinical trials. New surgery techniques are being used, combined with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, but this work is in its early stages. Specialist doctors or nurses can control pain successfully. They are called palliative care experts. Macmillan nurses are highly trained in the management of this illness.
read more (added 29 February 2008)
NEWS: Mesothelioma UK
Mesothelioma UK provides impartial up-to-date information for patients diagnosed with Mesothelioma and their carers. The Centre supports the development of specialist nursing practice and research which promotes the highest possible standards of care. A Consultant Nurse is the lead for Mesothelioma UK.
There is a free phone helpline available which provides access to timely, accurate and relevant advice for patients, carers and health care professionals. Callers are able to access local information and support and be signposted to relevant websites.
read more (added 29 February 2008)
NEWS: Workers Unaware that Asbestos Exposure can Cause Mesothelioma
A survey carried out by the British Lung Foundation published on 22 February 2008 has revealed that only 12% of the tradesmen surveyed were aware that exposure to asbestos dust could cause mesothelioma. The survey also reveals that 74% had had no training in how to deal with asbestos.
read more (added 29 February 2008)
NEWS: Latest HSE Statistics on Asbestos and other Work Related Deaths in 2006/07
read more (added 22 February 2008)
NEWS: Newsletter Spring 2008
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NEWS: Pleural Plaques Update
MP’s spoke out on behalf of thousands of the present and future victims of the asbestos related disease, pleural plaques, on 23 January 2008 in a House of Commons’ debate. The debate centred on the issue of compensation for pleural plaques, a disease caused by exposure to asbestos dust, which although symptomless causes the victim anxiety and distress because he/she knows they are at risk of developing other asbestos related conditions, such as disabling pleural thickening and asbestosis or terminal mesothelioma or lung cancer.
read more (added 22 February 2008)
NEWS: Professional Negligence
Do you believe that you have been let down by your legal advisors in a recent compensation claim for asbestos related disease or another form of personal injury?
read more (added 22 February 2008)
NEWS: Mesothelioma Risk in Schools
On Friday 15th February ITN News reported on the discovery of asbestos in System built schools.
Of the 26,000 schools in the UK approximately half are System built.
The schools were typically built between 1945 and 1980.
read more (added 22 February 2008)
NEWS: Claiming compensation for occupational cancers
The shock and upset of being diagnosed with cancer can result in the investigation as to the cause of the cancer being overlooked whilst treatment is pursued.
read more (added 9 February 2008)
NEWS: Dockworkers Asbestos Test Case: Rice and Thompson v Secretary of State for Trade & Industry and Stuntbrand Line Ltd
In this article Neil Fisher of John Pickering and Partners LLP discusses the first instance and Court of Appeal decisions in Rice & Thompson v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry arising out of the Dock Labour Scheme.
read more (added 28 January 2008)
NEWS: Mesothelioma Compensation
The Senior Master of the Royal Courts of Justice, Master Steven Whitaker, recently handed down his judgment in a case that highlights the conduct of some insurers/defendants in asbestos litigation. Please click here to read the full judgment of Spink v Shepherd Construction Limited and J Pullan & Sons Limited.
read more (added 8 January 2008)
NEWS: Scottish Cabinet to overturn pleural plaques ruling
The Scottish cabinet has agreed to introduce a Bill, which will reverse the House of Lord’s judgment (Johnston v NEI International Combustion Ltd) and enable those diagnosed with symptomless pleural plaques to continue to be able to raise and pursue actions for damages in Scotland.
read more (added 8 January 2008)
NEWS: Lobby of Parliament
There will be a lobby of Parliament on Tuesday 28th January 2008 to protest about the pleural plaques decision and call for a change in the law.
Also a pleural plaques petition to 10 Downing Street can be signed at this link http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/pleuralplaques/
See SARAG's letter
read more (added 4 January 2008)
NEWS: Specialist Asbestos Solicitor Receives “Scouserati” Recognition From Liverpool Echo
Kevin Johnson, partner in our Liverpool office, has received recognition from the Liverpool Echo newspaper as one of the 366 “Scouserati” for 2008. The list has been prepared as part of the Open Culture Project to celebrate the dawn of Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture.
read more (added 4 January 2008)
NEWS: Recent Mesothelioma Award
FAO Other Asbestos Disease solicitors
In light of the dreadful decision in Cameron -v- Vinters and HHJ Walton's earlier decision, I attach below details of a Pickering’s case heard in June this year by Master Rose.
read more (added 23 November 2007)
 NEWS: 100 mile bike ride for Christies
Katrina London, Solicitor at our Manchester branch rode 100 miles on her bike on 2 September 2007 to raise money to support Christie’s Hospital in Manchester.
read more (added September 26th 2007)
 NEWS: Paris to Marrakech by bike
On 9th September 2007 John Pickering solicitor Paul Glanville set off to cycle from Paris to Marrakech to raise money for medical research into mesothelioma. Averaging 75 miles per day his journey takes him through through France, Andorra, Spain and into Morocco.
read more (added September 25th 2007)
NEWS: Mesothelioma, Compensation for Joiner
Our Client v Beazer Homes Reigate Ltd and Another
Our client was diagnosed with mesothelioma in December 2006. We were instructed to deal with his claim in March 2007. We carried out urgent investigations to trace his former workmates, trace his former employers, obtain medical records and get supportive expert evidence. We obtained a supportive medical report from a leading consultant chest physician and issued proceedings on an urgent basis using a specialist court system for mesothelioma sufferers.
read more (added September 24th 2007)
NEWS: Christine Bates (Widow and Executrix of the Estate of Stanley Bates) v International Combustion Riley Limited (1) Paxman Diesels Limited (2) Amec BKW Limited (3)
Stanley Bates was born on 15 August 1931. In July 2004 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. He died on 16 december 2004 aged 73 years. Mr Bates worked alongside laggers who stripped off old asbestos lagging and who used asbestos materials for new lagging.
read more (added September 24th 2007)
NEWS: Specialist asbestos law firm responds to government consultation
The government has invited responses to a Consultation document proposing changes to the law about Regulations concerning employer liability insurance . . . We are concerned that these proposals may further undermine the rights of victims of industrial diseases and accidents and have sent a detailed response to the DWP.
read more (added September 24th 2007)
NEWS: Mesothelioma Claim – Witness Request
We are trying to trace any witnesses who previously worked for Connolly, Keiller & Whitburn Ltd. They were based in the Great Howard Street area of Kirkdale, Liverpool.
read more (added September 24th 2007)
NEWS:
Legal Award for Specialist Asbestos Law Firm
 John Pickering and Partners LLP have received an award of Specialist law Firm of the Year 2007 from Liverpool Law Society at an event to celebrate legal excellence in the Liverpool law community.
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