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 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 ›
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