Mesothelioma Campaign Petition Handed into 10 Downing Street 

Employers' Liability Insurance Bureau Bill to Protect Mesothelioma Sufferers

My settlement exceeded my expectations says former bricklayer in asbestosis claim

29 May 2009 - Ken Walker was enjoying his retirement with his wife Thelma when he was diagnosed with asbestosis in August 2007.  He instructed us to claim compensation from his former employer Pilkington Brothers Limited who exposed him to asbestos dust during his employment as an apprentice bricklayer, bricklayer and technologist...more

John Pickering and Partners Staff to Run 10k for Charity

27 May 2009 - On 14 June 2009 a team of John Pickering and Partners LLP employees will be donning their running shoes to take part in a charity 10 k run in Victoria Park, London for Barts and the London Charity.  This is an independent charity for the three hospitals of Barts and the London NHS Trust – Barts in the city, The Royal London in Whitechapel and The London Chest in Bethnal Green....more

Spring Newsletter 2009

Paul to hit the road again for mesothelioma

21 May 2009 - Paul Glanville, partner at John Pickering and Partners LLP, will be joining other cyclists in a ‘Breathtaking Journey’ around the U.K.  The aim of the ride is to raise awareness about the risks posed by asbestos and the breathtaking damage, in particular mesothelioma, has caused to men and women across the world...more

Fastest mesothelioma lawyer in the land

21 May 2009 - Satpal Singh, a solicitor at our Halifax office, dealt with a mesothelioma claim from start to finish in an impressive 24 days...more

Insurers’ bid to halt Scottish law change

21 May 2009 - A group of insurers have lodged a judicial review against The Damages (Asbestos-related conditions) (Scotland) Act.  The Act makes pleural plaques a compensatable condition in Scotland but does not apply to England, Wales and Northern Ireland....more

Prime Minister gets involved in moving forward agenda for asbestos in schools

21 May 2009 - On 14 May, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown met asbestos campaigners, the leaders of the biggest teaching unions and worried MP’s to discuss concerns about asbestos related deaths in schools in particular from mesothelioma....more

Asbestos sheets found in children’s play area

22 April 2009 - Parents in Barrow were shocked to find their young children playing with corrugated asbestos sheets. The asbestos sheets had been left in Walney in Barrow. The parents have contacted the Council to have this deadly asbestos removed..more

Sweet Victory for Family

22 April 2009 - When Doris Fowler took a job at Nuttall’s sweet factory in Doncaster she had no idea that it would eventually claim her life from mesothelioma. She worked in the factory on the boiling pans. She boiled toffee to make the famous ‘Nuttall’s Mintoes’ sweets...more

Joiner Receives £170,000 Compensation in Successful Mesothelioma Claim

1 April 2009 - Our client, Mr F, was fit and active, working two days a week as a joiner and three days a week for a charity, when he was told that he was told he was suffering from the terminal condition mesothelioma, caused as a result of his exposure to asbestos.  He was 59 years old at the time..more. 

Secretary dies from asbestos cancer

1 April 2009 - Mrs P was born and brought up in South Africa.  She trained as a secretary in Durban before coming to England.  She fell in love with her husband to be and stayed in London. They married and had two children.

She found work as a secretary at the Central Asbestos Factory in Mile End London. It was here that she breathed in the asbestos fibres which would eventually take her life from mesothelioma...more

Daily Mirror’s Asbestos Timebomb Campaign -

17 March 2009 - See their aims here ...more