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Following the collapse of Thomas Cook we brought a number of claims under s.75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 against credit card suppliers in relation to the tour operator’s alleged breach of contract. All very satisfactory, and a neat way of…
In M v. Charringtons Fuel Oils Limited, instructed by Irwin Mitchell, Stephen acted for the family in respect of a fatal mesothelioma claim where the widow of the deceased had to go into residential care because of aggressive dementia. Her husband would…
In Smith v. W. Ford & Sons [2021] EWHC 1749, Stephen Glynn, acting for the widow of a mesothelioma victim, successfully resisted the defendant’s attempt to subvert the masters’ usual practice of not cost budgeting in any asbestos disease case. The defendant…
Stephen Glynn acted for an 86 year old widow whose husband died of mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to asbestos when he worked for the MoD at its Chatham Dockyard in the 1970s. The widow sadly suffered from Alzheimer’s disease…
Stephen Glynn will be speaking at the Annual APIL Asbestos Conference in Manchester today.
Topics will include:
Asbestos claims: current issues – a view from the Masters’ corridor
Costs update
Quantum update
The engineer’s perspective
Limitation Limitation…
Stephen Glynn met civil servants at the MoJ last week together with APIL and other senior practitioners to assist the government in its imminent review of the discount rate.
Stephen Glynn represented a widow before the First Tier Tribunal in what is thought to be the first appeal under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme.
He successfully argued that his client’s deceased wife was wrongfully exposed to asbestos when she worked…
The publication was co-written and edited by Stephen Glynn with contribution of the following members of the PI team at 9 Gough Chambers; Andrew Ritchie QC, Jennifer Newcomb, Laura Bumpus and James Byrne and the Senior QB Master and Master Eastman as…
A very recent review (published on 8th December 2015) into the quality of English NHS complaints investigations by the Health Service Ombudsman where serious or avoidable harm has been alleged has led to a number of shocking findings that:
40% of investigations…
The Court of Appeal has allowed the defendant’s appeal in Billet v MOD [2015] EWCA Civ 773 and substituted the judge’s award of future earnings loss of £99k based on a multiplier/multiplicand approach using the reduction factors for disability set out in…
