Joint liability of employers

The full ruling of the House of Lords on apportionment of liability for asbestos-caused mesothelioma was published on 21 June 2002. As already announced, it was held that the injustice of denying remedy to an industrially injured employee outweighed any unfairness to successive employers who had failed to adequately protect their workers but could not be proved to have caused the injury. [See Asbestos Update in this issue of LRI ].