Specialist asbestos law firm, John Pickering and Partners LLP, has received recognition from Liverpool Law Society for their charitable support to asbestos sufferers and asbestos related charities and good causes.  

 

The firm received the Community Investment Award at the Legal Awards Dinner on Saturday the 7^th May 2011, held by Liverpool Law Society, to celebrate excellence in the Merseyside legal community.  The Community Investment award highlights law firms providing best practice and innovation in community investment including fundraising and charitable giving, pro bono and community advice and non-legal volunteering and community initiatives.

 

John Pickering and Partners as winner of the Community Investment award will be passported to the judges’ stage of the National Law Society Excellence Awards taking place in October 2011.

Kevin Johnson, partner based at the firm’s Liverpool office commented:-

  

 

 

 "We are very grateful and honoured to receive this award from Liverpool Law Society for our efforts to try to help asbestos sufferers.

 

To receive this recognition is a great privilege for the firm.”

 

 

 

 

Notes

Since 2008, we have been committed to donating 10% of our net annual profits to charities and good causes who help asbestos sufferers.

In 2009 we set up the John Pickering and Partners Charitable Trust to cement our commitment to helping organisations that help asbestos victims.  We have already given several thousand pounds to these good causes.  Follow this link to learn more about the Trust.

Contact details:

Kevin Johnson, Solicitor                    
John Pickering and Partners LLP      

                                  
Telephone: 0151 227 1214                
E-mail: kj@johnpickering.co.uk         
Website: www.johnpickering.co.uk               
FREEPHONE: 0800 854201                         

www.mesotheliomaadvice.co.uk       

About John Pickering and Partners LLP

John Pickering and Partners LLP- Specialist mesothelioma compensation solicitors

We are a specialist personal injury law firm. We have been handling claims for industrial disease for over 30 years. Most of our work involves acting for asbestos disease victims. We only act for the sufferers of asbestos diseases and never act for the organisations that caused the asbestos exposure or their insurers. We have an ethical approach and pledge to donate 10% of our net profits every year to good causes that help asbestos sufferers.

 

Click here to find out about our donations to good causes. We have also been involved in most of the landmark judgments that shape this area of law. Find out more about us or find out about our reported cases. We are on the panels of several asbestos support groups and are ranked highly by legal guides. Click here to find out more about what others have said about us.

John Pickering and Partners LLP is a niche legal practice that has represented Claimants in the leading asbestos "test cases" in the last ten years. The firm represented Sylvia Barker in Barker v Corus (UK) Plc, a case that highlighted the legal tactics of employers and insurers trying to cut back their compensation liabilities to mesothelioma sufferers, and which prompted the amendment of the Compensation Act 2006 to ensure full compensation for mesothelioma claims. The firm represented two of the three Claimants in the Fairchild appeal, in which the insurance industry tried unsuccessfully to block compensation altogether for mesothelioma sufferers unable to identify which of two or more sources of asbestos exposure had caused their illness.

The firm represented Alice Jefferson, a mesothelioma sufferer, whose illness and compensation claim against Cape Asbestos were featured in the important documentary "Alice: A Fight For Life." Shown by Yorkshire Television in July 1982, the programme was an important catalyst for legal change and public awareness of the plight of mesothelioma and other asbestos disease sufferers and a prompt for important legal reform.

Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects the lining of certain bodily organs. It most commonly affects the lining of the lungs (the pleura) but it can affect other areas including organs in the abdominal cavity (the peritoneum).

According to the British Lung Foundation, more than 2,000 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma every year in the UK and there is one mesothelioma death every five hours. The number of deaths from mesothelioma increased from 153 in 1968 to 1,969 in 2004 and is expected to peak at 2,450 between 2011 and 2015.

The British Lung Foundation, supported by John Pickering and Partners LLP, launched the first Action Mesothelioma Day on 27th February 2006, to raise awareness about mesothelioma, to improve the treatment and care of mesothelioma patients, and to lobby for better funding for research into mesothelioma and for the protection and education of people who work with asbestos.

If you need advice about an asbestos related illness, contact us now for information about making a claim for compensation.

Contact us to find out more about your entitlement to claim compensation if you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos related condition.