Occupational Disease Conference 2012

Event Details

Course Code: S2747
Speaker: Nicky Harrison
Specialisations: Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Conferences,
Venue: Liverpool Law Society, 2nd Floor, The Cotton Exchange, Bixteth Street, Liverpool, L3 9LQ
CPD hours: 5.5 hours
Date: Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Time: 09:30 - 16:45

Members Price: £199
Non Members Price: £249

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****Multi Delegate Discount Offer**** First booking charged at full price, any further bookings from the same firm will be charged at a discounted rate: Members = £149.00 +vat Non Members = £199.00 +vat

9.00 – 9.30am Registration

9.30 – 9.40am District Judge Harrison ~ Chairpersons Introduction

9.40 – 10.15am Liability for psychiatric injury in the workplace ~ Neil Downey

· Review of the law on foreseeability and breach of duty since Hatton v Sutherland

· Relevance of statutory duties including Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, Working Time Regulations

· Vicarious liability for assault and harassment

· Should damage be apportioned?

10.15 - 11am Mental health in the workplace ~ Professor John Copeland

· The common causes of mental health problems in the workplace will be covered including the attitude of the law to harassment

· Problems that arise due to the attitude and actions of employees, employers and the general public and by the nature of the work, and pre-existing problems

· When does a problem become an illness; what is a mental illness? Types of illness, personality problems, recognition and appropriate response

11 – 11.15am Refreshments

11.15 – 12pm Limitation in Occupational Disease Claims ~ Tim Trotman

· Actual and Constructive Knowledge

· Significance and “Attributability” - the view now in the Supreme Court

· S.33 Discretion – the underlying claim : McDonnell [2009] EWCA Civ 1257, and MoD v AB [2010] EWCA Civ 1317

12 - 12.45pm Industrial deafness ~ Doug Denton

Exposure & Breach of Duty

· Noise & the Worker

· Code of Practice from 1973 – Baker v Quantum Clothing

· Noise at Work Regulations 1989

· Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005

Causation

· Coles, Lutman & Buffin (2000)

12.45 – 1.45pm Lunch

1.30 – 2.30pm Asbestos Litigation ~ Peter Cowan

· Breach of Duty - Williams v University of Birmingham

And Merchant Navy cases

· Causation in Lung Cancer Claims - Impact of the 'Atomic Veterans' judgments of the Supreme Court

· Quantum - Recent cases

· Insurance Issues - Supreme Court judgments in the 'Trigger Issue' litigation

2.30 – 3.00pm How will LASPO affect the commercial operations of law firms in the industrial disease and clinical negligence sectors ~ Gary Carrington

· How do law firms acquire cases currently

· How will LASPO affect that model going forward

· What are the future strategies – will a form of ABS have a role to play

3.00 – 3.15pm Refreshments

3.15 – 4.15pm Industrial disease cases over 30 years ~ Dr FA Pritchard

· Lead poisoning

· Asbestos

· Deafness including lorry drivers

· VWF

· Dermatitis

· Stress

· Q fever

· What these conditions have in common and how to deal with the practicalities of the claims

4.15 – 4.30 Chair closes

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