Judgment was handed down in Haggerty-Garton & Ors v Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd [2021] EWHC 2924 (QB) yesterday following a two-day assessment of damages hearing before Ritchie J. This was an unusual fatal mesothelioma claim where the applicable law was Scots law. Judgment for the First Claimant, Charmaine Haggerty-Garton (the widow), was given in the…
Read moreAsbestos Exposure and Choice of Law – Docherty Revisited
This blog post is by James Beeton of 12 King’s Bench Walk. In May we considered the decision of the Outer House of Scotland’s Court of Session in Docherty v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2018] CSOH 25 in this blog post. The question for the court to consider may be summarised…
Read moreAsbestos Exposure and Choice of Law – The View from Scotland
This blog post is by James Beeton of 12 King’s Bench Walk. In Docherty v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2018] CSOH 25, the Outer House of Scotland’s Court of Session considered the following question: Where a man, while working in Scotland, inhales asbestos fibres that cause him injury after he…
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