Lawyers Leigh Day calls for new legislation to curb UK-based asbestos trade
Leading law firm calls for restrictions to laws that enable UK firms to play a role in asbestos trading...
Leading law firm calls for restrictions to laws that enable UK firms to play a role in asbestos trading...
New figures reveal that asbestos is found in nearly half of local authority run primary schools, putting children at increased risk of developing cancer...
The HSE has published latest statistics (collated up to 2017) regarding meso deaths caused by exposure to asbestos...
Firms across Great Britain are to be targeted in a new series of inspections focusing on dust control by the Health and Safety Executive...
Asbestos professionals in the UK have joined forces to launch a certification card so that workers can prove they are qualified to handle the material...
At least 5,000 deaths each year in the UK can be linked to asbestos exposure, despite the substance being banned in 1999...
An electrician whose wife developed lung cancer after washing his asbestos-contaminated overalls has won a landmark action in the High Court...
A hospital has allegedly refused to reveal whether its patients and staff may be at risk of a deadly asbestos-related disease, on the grounds of “commercial confidentiality” – a move branded “scandalous” by the devastated family of a former nurse...