Support for claimants: mesothelioma claimants with low exposure to asbestos succeed

9th March 2011 in the cases of:

Sienkiewicz -v- Greif; Willmore -v- Knowsley 2011 UKSC10.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of mesothelioma claimants who suffered low levels of asbestos exposure.

Now in order to succeed on the issue of causation a mesothelioma claimant only needs to establish, on the balance of probabilities, that his or her exposure to asbestos dust was more than minimal and, if so, it will satisfy the Fairchild Test that such exposure

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