Regional Legal News brings together WE Solicitors’ in-depth guides to legal issues that affect particular towns, regions and industries across the North of England and beyond. Each guide looks at how the law applies locally, whether that is industrial disease in a historic industry, professional negligence, serious injury or another area of practice, and explains plainly whether a claim may be possible.
The guides are grouped by region and new ones are added as they are published. If your area or industry is not listed yet, call us free on 0800 294 3065 and we will tell you where you stand.
North West
Asbestos Farm Buildings Claims and Farming Injury Claims in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire
Asbestos cement barn roofs, tractor and grain dryer noise, chainsaw vibration, mouldy hay and fragile roofs have left a legacy of disease and injury on North West farms. Who can claim, against whom, and how long you have. Read the guide ›
Hearing Loss and Asbestos Claims for Lancashire Aerospace Workers: Preston, Warton and Samlesbury
Former aircraft factory workers in Preston, Warton and Samlesbury faced decades of riveting, engine-test and machine shop noise, plus historic asbestos exposure. WE Solicitors explains how Lancashire’s aerospace workers can still bring a claim. Read the guide ›
Asbestos, Hearing Loss and Industrial Disease Claims: Liverpool and Merseyside
Asbestos, mesothelioma and hearing loss claims for people who worked Liverpool’s docks, the Birkenhead shipyard, Merseyside’s car plants, or the chemical works of Runcorn and Widnes. Read the guide ›
Barrow-in-Furness Shipyard Asbestos and Industrial Disease Claims
Barrow-in-Furness has built ships and submarines since 1871 and recorded Britain’s highest mesothelioma and asbestosis death rates. Former shipyard, submarine and lagging workers with asbestos disease or hearing loss may still be able to claim. Read the guide ›
Asbestos and Industrial Disease in Trafford Park, Manchester
The world’s first planned industrial estate employed around 75,000 people at its peak, and its engineering works, factories and docks left a heavy asbestos legacy. Who was exposed, which diseases followed, and why former workers can still claim today. Read the guide ›
Industrial Illnesses in Stockport’s Hatting and Textile Industry
Stockport’s hat works and mills left generations of workers with hearing loss, tinnitus, asbestos disease and more. What the industry did to its workforce, and why former workers can still claim decades later. Read the guide ›
Asbestos Exposure in Chester’s Construction
Chester’s tradespeople, its joiners, plasterers, electricians, plumbers and builders, were exposed to asbestos not in heavy industry but in the fabric of the buildings they worked on: schools, colleges, offices, shops and homes built or refurbished before 2000. Read the guide ›
Professional Negligence in Manchester
Professional negligence is when a solicitor, conveyancer, surveyor, accountant or other professional falls below the standard reasonably expected of them and their client loses money as a result. Read the guide ›
North East
Industrial Illnesses in Newcastle upon Tyne’s Shipbuilding Industry
For more than a century the Tyne shipyards exposed workers to asbestos, welding fumes, extreme noise and heavy labour. This guide sets out the diseases that followed, how long they take to appear, and why former shipyard workers can still claim today, even where the yard closed decades ago. Read the guide ›
Yorkshire
Industrial Disease in Sheffield’s Steel, Forging and Cutlery Trades: Hearing Loss, Asbestos and HAVS Claims
Sheffield’s steelworks, forges, rolling mills and cutlery grinding shops, and the Rotherham melting shops of the Don Valley, exposed generations of workers to noise, asbestos, silica and vibration. How former steelworkers and their families can claim for hearing loss, asbestos disease and HAVS. Read the guide ›
South West
Plymouth and Devonport Dockyard: Asbestos and Industrial Disease Claims
Former Devonport dockyard and Plymouth shipyard workers exposed to asbestos or excessive noise may be entitled to compensation, even decades on. We explain eligibility, evidence and time limits. Read the guide ›
South East
Chatham Dockyard Asbestos Claims: Mesothelioma and Industrial Disease Compensation for Medway Workers
Chatham’s Royal Naval dockyard employed shipwrights, laggers, boilermakers and electricians on warship and nuclear submarine refits until it closed in 1984, leaving Medway with one of Britain’s highest mesothelioma death rates. Former dockyard workers and their families may still be able to claim. Read the guide ›
Not sure whether your situation is covered? WE Solicitors act for clients across England and Wales on a no win, no fee basis. A free, no-obligation conversation is usually enough to tell you whether you have a claim.
