Tuesday, January 1, 2008.

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.

The article says:

“They are the most influential Scousers on the planet…or they are movers and shakers whose lives and work are inextricably linked with Merseyside and its fortunes.”

Click here for link to the Liverpool Echo article and click here to see list of the “Scouserati.”

Each day during 2008 the Liverpool Echo will be speaking to one of the “Scouserati” and getting their “thought for the day” which will be featured in the Liverpool Echo, on the Roger Philips’ phone-in on Radio Merseyside and on the Open Culture website at www.culture.org.uk .

The list of “Scouserati” includes many prominent and internationally famous celebrities.  From the sporting world it includes Kenny Dalglish, David Moyes, Alan Hansen, Ian Botham, Bill Kenwright and Wayne Rooney.  Other celebrities include Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Alan Bleasdale, Ricky Tomlinson, Ken Dodd, Jason Isaacs, Sir Paul McCartney, Daniel Craig, Elvis Costello and Phil Redmond.  Lawyers in the list include the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, His Honour Lord Justice Brian Leveson, Baron Goldsmith QC of Allerton (former Attorney General), Michael Redfern QC and Cherie Booth QC, as well as senior partners in several of Liverpool’s major commercial law practices.

John Pickering and Partners LLP

John Pickering and Partners LLP is a specialist 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 the victims of asbestos.

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

Further information:
Kevin Johnson, Partner
John Pickering and Partners LLP
19 Castle Street
Liverpool
L2 4SX

Telephone: 0151 227 1214

E-mail: kj@johnpickering.co.uk
Website: www.johnpickering.co.uk

FREEPHONE: 0800 854201