Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:22:43 +0100

From: Robert Stevens

Subject: Asbestos compensation

The Government's attitude if the ultimate source of payment had been the Treasury rather than liability insurance or local government is easy to imagine.

However, their attempts to formulate a workable rule should be good for a laugh, if nothing else.

Robert Stevens
Barrister
University of Oxford

Richard Lewis writes:

Dear all,

Asbestos compensation update

On returning to the UK from the conference I discover that Tony Blair is to overturn the effect of the Lords decision in Barker.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5074886.stm

I have heard independently that the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is hopeful of securing this legislation. Will it happen?? So much for the politics of tort ??

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