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Injury by Exposure to Oil Well Fumes – The Burden of Proof and a ‘Flexible’ Approach to Causation

November 27, 2017 James Beeton Causation, Environment

This blog post is by James Beeton of 12 King’s Bench Walk. The Privy Council decision in Petroleum Co of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd v Ryan and Anor [2017] UKPC 30 is based primarily on its own facts, but contains two broader points of interest for tort lawyers. The first is the Privy Council’s refusal…

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