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A not-for-profit organisation
committed to injured people
A not-for-profit organisation
committed to injured people

Occupational health group
(588 members)

Date of next meeting

09 Jun 2026, 17:00 to 18:00

APIL is bringing to members a special live virtual meeting which is being organised by the
Occupational Health SIG group coordinators, Kevin Johnson and Geraldine Coombs.

Introduction

Geraldine Coombs and Kevin Johnson
APIL's Occupational Health Group Coordinators

Costs recovery in asbestos cases

Tom Blackburn
Hugh James, Cardiff

Q and A


Speakers

Time
17:00 to 18:00
1 CPD hour

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Details of previous meetings

30 Mar
2026
17:00 to 18:00

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • Tips & tricks for robust case preparation
  • Q&A
Presented by: Gerry Coombs, Daniel Easton & Kevin Johnson
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27 Nov
2025
17:00 to 18:00

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • Understanding Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Hodgson and Darnton or Austin Bradford Hill?
  • Destruction of Companies House records and other issues affecting practitioners
  • Q&A
Presented by: Harminder Bains, Peter Reid, Gerry Coombs & Kevin Johnson
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29 May
2025
17:00 to 18:00

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • What does material increase in risk mean: Johnstone – the arguments
  • Q&A
Presented by: Gerry Coombs, Kevin Johnson & John-Paul Swoboda KC
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4 Dec
2024
17:30 to 18:30

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • An introduction to the US talc litigation and consumer talc products contaminated with asbestos
  • Chandler v Cape and liabilities of parent companies
  • Q&A
Presented by: Gerry Coombs, Kevin Johnson & Brendan Tully
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22 Apr
2024
17:30 to 18:30

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • Comments on the recent mesothelioma decision: Dean v Armstrong Oiler Co Ltd [High Court, 22 November 2023]
  • Update on new and emerging treatments for mesothelioma patients and clinical trials
  • Q&A
Presented by: Gerry Coombs, Liz Darlison MBE, Kevin Johnson & Simon Kilvington KC
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12 Sep
2023
17:30 to 18:30

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • A comparative study of English and California asbestos litigation practice
  • Recent liability decisions - Cuthbert, White et al
Presented by: Max Archer, Judge Jo-Lynne Q. Lee, Gerry Coombs & Kevin Johnson
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20 Apr
2023
17:30 to 18:30

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • Complex quantum issues in asbestos claims
Presented by: Gerry Coombs, Joanne Jefferies, Kevin Johnson & Peter Williams
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3 Oct
2022
17:00 to 19:00
London

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • Learning points from losing cases – panel discussion
Presented by: Ian Bailey, Gerry Coombs, Sarah Crowther KC, Daniel Easton & Stephen Glynn
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28 Apr
2022
17:00 to 18:00

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • Recognising asbestos products
Presented by: Ian Bailey, Greg Byrne & Daniel Easton
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14 Dec
2021
16:00 to 17:00

Occupational health

  • Introduction
  • The assessment of life expectancy in legal claims
Presented by: John Corless, Ian Bailey & Daniel Easton
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9 Jul
2020
17:00 to 18:00
Live webinar

Occupational health

  • Introduction and APIL activity update
  • Causation following Bannister/Hemms
Presented by: Ian Bailey, Daniel Easton & Simon Kilvington KC
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25 Feb
2020
17:30 to 19:30
London

Occupational health

  • Introduction and update
  • Industrial disease inquests and other general inquest related issues
  • Chairing the lung MDT
Presented by: Ian Bailey, Michael Beckles, Daniel Easton & Alison McCormick
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30 Apr
2019
17:30 to 19:30
London

Occupational health

  • Introduction and update
  • Immunotherapy for mesothelioma
  • Recent asbestos cases
Presented by: Ian Bailey, Patrick Kerr MBE & Peter Szlosarek
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12 Nov
2018
17:00 to 19:00
Manchester

Occupational health

  • Introduction and update
  • Low level exposure to asbestos, significance and culpability – one expert’s view
  • Blue Water Asbestos Claims
Presented by: Peter Cowan & Martin Stear
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6 Jun
2017
16:00 to 18:00
Leeds

Occupational health

  • APIL campaign activity at a glance
  • Low level asbestos exposure
  • Contributory negligence for smoking in lung cancer claims: Where are we now?
  • HMRC – Employment Histories Update
Presented by: James Ainsley, Chris Chambers, Matthew Phillips KC & Robert Webb
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14 Mar
2017
17:30 to 19:30
London

Occupational health

  • APIL campaign activity at a glance
  • Low level asbestos exposure
  • Contributory negligence for smoking in lung cancer claims: Where are we now?
Presented by: Chris Chambers, Stephen Glynn & Matthew Phillips KC
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31 May
2016
17:30 to 19:30
London

Occupational health

  • APIL campaign activity at a glance
  • Heneghan: another rock of uncertainty
  • Asbestos related lung cancer, medical aspects of causation following Heneghan
Presented by: Grant Evatt, Robin Michael Rudd & Harry Steinberg KC
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11 Jun
2015
17:30 to 19:30
London

Occupational health

  • Mesothelioma list
  • Key issues affecting the cases/practice
Presented by: Roger Eastman, Stephen Glynn & Peter Szlosarek
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1 Oct
2014
17:30 to 19:30
Manchester

Occupational health

  • It is not an abuse: the implications of Dowdall v William Kenyon & others
  • Section 48: Funding mesothelioma claims
  • Current EC activities within APIL
Presented by: David Allan KC, Cenric Clement-Evans & Daniel Easton
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6 Mar
2014
17:30 to 19:30
Southampton

Occupational health

  • diagnosis of pleural plaques, pleural thickening and asbestosis
  • occupational health update
  • Current EC activies within APIL
Presented by:
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