weightmans – Appeal resolves asbestos uncertainty

Exposure to even low concentrations of dust may be hazardous

White v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Cuthbert v Taylor Woodrow Construction Holdings (2024) EWCA Civ 244

By way of a judgment handed down on 14 March 2024, the Court of Appeal have, in two conjoined appeals, provided definitive guidance to practitioners upon the duties owed by employers who exposed their employees to asbestos prior to 1966.