United Kingdom · Motion · Early Day Motion
EDM 143
NO-FAULT COMPENSATION SCHEME FOR ASBESTOS VICTIMS
Introduced
20 December 2000
Last action
20 December 2000 · Early Day Motion
Status
0
Sponsors
Mr Michael Clapham
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
20 December 2000
Summary
That this House is determined to secure a no-fault compensation scheme for the victims of asbestos-related diseases to bring to an end the unreasonable situation in which victims have to run the gauntlet of adversarial and expensive litigation where legal costs can be out of all proportion to the modest damages awarded; considers that with good will on all sides, common ground could be found to enable a no-fault comprehensive asbestos compensation scheme to be established; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to facilitate employers, insurers, trades unions, lawyers and all other organisations concerned with the consequences of exposure to asbestos to work with urgency to devise an appropriate scheme, but should this not prove possible call for the introduction of a statutory no-fault compensation scheme.
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Timeline
20 December 2000
Early Day Motion
That this House is determined to secure a no-fault compensation scheme for the victims of asbestos-related diseases to bring to an end the unreasonable situation in which victims have to run the gauntlet of adversarial and expensive litigation where legal costs can be out of all proportion to the modest damages awarded; considers that with good will on all sides, common ground could be found to enable a no-fault comprehensive asbestos compensation scheme to be established; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to facilitate employers, insurers, trades unions, lawyers and all other organisations concerned with the consequences of exposure to asbestos to work with urgency to devise an appropriate scheme, but should this not prove possible call for the introduction of a statutory no-fault compensation scheme.
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- Mr Michael Clapham · Labour · Primary sponsor
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- Official source: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motions/19560
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- uk · edm-19560 · source updated 20 December 2000