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November 12, 2013

Percy Leonard McDonald v (1) Department for Communities and Local Government; and (2) National Grid Electricity Transmission PLC [2013] EWCA Civ 1346

Barristers: Matthew White KC

Areas of Law: Employers’ Liability, Industrial Disease, and Personal Injury

Introduction

Matthew succeeded in the Court of Appeal in a battle over exposure to a modest amount of asbestos in the 1950s. The judgment confirms that there must be enough exposure for harm to have been foreseeable at the time of exposure for a claim in negligence to succeed.

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