Asbestos and dock workers: who is to blame?

Rice v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2007]

The claimants were dock workers who had been employed between 1955 and 1967 to unload shipments of asbestos, often contained in hessian sacks. They formed part of a pool of labour registered with the National Dock Labour Board, from which men were selected by, or allocated to, a registered employer, pursuant to the scheme contained in the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Order 1947.

Under the scheme, when they were not worki... (294 more words)

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