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Kirk T. Hartley
Feb 25, 20212 min read
France - Asbestos Exposure Prosecutions Against Former Managers of an Asbestos-Cement Manufacturer
Issues arising from criminal prosecutions of former managers at an asbestos-cement plant (Everite) are up on appeal, as described in a...
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Kirk T. Hartley
May 4, 20201 min read
Are More High Value UK Class Actions Ahead?
A claim said to be worth $14 billion is up for a hearing next week in the UK Supreme Court.
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 18, 20191 min read
Update on Class Actions in France (and Across the EU)
Despite the naysayers of years ago, class actions procedures continue to evolve and expand in Europe. A November 11, 2019 online article...
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Kirk Hartley
Sep 21, 20181 min read
Class Actions in Europe: “Collective re-dress: all talk and now trousers”
Some years back, a few people (including me, in 2010) bucked conventional wisdom and predicted the rise of class actions in Europe. See,...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 25, 20172 min read
Developments in Consumer Class Actions in the UK
Despite the many who said Europe would never allow class actions, it has happened, in varying ways and to varying degrees. The big news...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 31, 20171 min read
Comparison of EU and US Product Liability Law
A slightly dated (2015) but now free article comparing US and EU law on product liability is described in a January 29, 2017 post at the...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 30, 20151 min read
UK Supreme Court Declines Human Rights Challenge to Conditional Fees and ATE
The UK Supreme Court last week ruled against a party challenging an obligation to pay fees under ATE agreements and conditional fee...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 22, 20141 min read
UK Supreme Court Rules for Plaintiff in What US Lawyers Would Call an Premises Asbestos Case
A victory for the plaintiff in a UK in a case that US lawyers would refer to as an asbestos premises case. The case was covered before in...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 22, 20121 min read
Update on UK Plan to Trace More EL Insurance and Pay a Small Amount to Persons with Meosthelioma
An update on part of the asbestos compensation dynamic in Great Britain. In the UK, most compensation claims are asserted against...
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Kirk Hartley
May 25, 20121 min read
EU Intends to Step Up Consumer Protection, Including Small Claims Processing Through Its E-Justice P
LAW360 (subscription required) includes an informative post about EU efforts to step up consumer protection efforts. The plans are laid...
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 3, 20111 min read
New Standing Decision in EU for Challenges to Regulatory Decisions on Product Ingredients
The EU follows the precautionary approach when regulating use of actually or potentially "toxic" substances used in products. Therefore,...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 8, 20111 min read
UK Legal Reform is In Effect – Lawyer Monopoly Ends and Economic Marginalization Takes Another
UK "legal reform" is now in effect. Many lawyers lacking specialty niches will now experience the commoditization already experienced by...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 1, 20111 min read
Uk Bribery Act Moving Forward – New Guidance from the Government
The UK Bribery Act has been much discussed and feared by some businesses. SNR Denton this week published this new advice related to the...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 5, 20101 min read
Maltese Court Rejects EU Constitutional Remedies Against Government Defendants for the Family of a M
This popular press article provides a fair amount of detail on a ruling in Malta related to the mesothelioma death of a dockworker. The...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 20, 20102 min read
Spanish Trial Court Enters Judgment for Plaintiffs in a Lawsuit Regarding “Neighborhood Exposu
Spain. As readers may recall, its Supreme Court last year approved the use of contingent fees, as described in this prior post. More...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 26, 20106 min read
London Rejects Pleural Plaques Claiming
As it happens, I’m speaking this week at an asbestos litigation conference. Yesterday’s topic was asbestos bankruptcies and today’s...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 29, 20101 min read
Trial Proceeding Ahead, Slowly, for Former Eternit Officials
Please look to the left under the heading “Eternit” for prior articles on the combined civil and criminal trial in Italy involving...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 29, 20101 min read
Plaques Discussion Ahead in the House of Commons
Back to Europe for the day. The House of Commons is anticipating discussions on pleural plaques vis a vis the apparent path of Scotland...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 27, 20102 min read
UK Asbestos Working Party More Than Doubles Estimate to 11 Billion Euros
A summary article from Insurance Business Review is online here, and is pasted below. ___________________________________________________...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 24, 20102 min read
Published Reports – UK Government Seeking a Deal With Unions on Pleural Plaques
This article from a British newspaper reports that the UK government is trying to cut a deal with unions 1) to pay for more scientific...
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