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Asbestos CharitiesJohn Pickering and Partners give 10% of their net profit to charities and other good causes. Throughout the year we have been making donations to charities and other groups who help those with respiratory diseases. Such groups include asbestos support groups and those involved in medical research. Earlier this year, we set up a charitable trust; The John Pickering and Partners Charitable Trust. We have been making donations recently from this trust as set out below:
Chris Knighton and Ruth Davies Ruth Davies attended the Mesothelioma Patient and Carer Day in Newcastle on Saturday, 3 October 2009 to present a cheque to Chris Knighton for the Mick Knighton Mesothelioma Research Fund for £5,000.
Dame Helena and Neil Fisher On Tuesday, 3 November 2009, Neil Fisher, partner at our Manchester office met up with the British Lung Foundation in London and presented a cheque for £5,000.
Rachel Donovan, Kevin Johnson and Alyson Wort On Friday, 6 November 2009 Kevin Johnson, partner and Rachel Donovan solicitor met with the Roy Castle Cancer Foundation in Liverpool and made a donation of £2,000. Alyson Wort director of fundraising said ”Thank you once again for your wonderful generosity donating £2,000 which will help us to continue with our mission to defeat lung cancer. There is such a synergy between the work that your practice does and the work that we do so that it makes the donation even more meaningful”. We donated £2,000 on Friday, the 27 November 2009 to Woodlands Hospice in Fazakerley, Liverpool.
Kevin Johnson and Neil Beadman John Pickering and Partners solicitors are to make further donations to the June Hancock Fund and hospices local to their offices. Ruth Davies Tele: 01422 345535 Notes 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 edcation of people working with asbestos. |
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