Brian Schofield was 72 years old when he died from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

He had enjoyed a career as a teacher of engineering, drawing and maths from 1959-1978. 
We are representing Brian’s widow, Sheila Schofield, in a potential claim for compensation against his former employers who exposed him to deadly asbestos dust. 

We urgently need to speak to anyone who worked with Brian, or was taught by Brian, at Crompton House Comprehensive School in Shaw, Oldham from 1962-1969 and from 1972-1978 and/or Foxford Comprehensive School in Longford, Coventry from September 1969 to April 1972.

If you are able to assist or have any information which you feel may be relevant to this claim then please contact:

Kevin Johnson or Joanne Waterson

John Pickering and Partners LLP
19 Castle Street
Liverpool
L2 4SX

Tel: 0151 227 1214
Fax: 0151 258 1262

Email: kj@johnpickering.co.uk
jw@johnpickering.co.uk

Notes

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).

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 asbestos disease sufferers and a prompt for important reform.

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