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... Telegraph Make us your homepage Search Our site Web Search Our site Web Monday 13 March 2006 Home News home Breaking news Business news Crossword Society Factfiles Law reports Matt cartoon Obituaries Opinion Picture galleries Quiz Text alerts Weather Weblogs Week at a glance Your view SPECIAL REPORTSMarriott HotelsVodafone PassportHitachi TechnologyEnergy Saving TrustClimate change: BP About us Contact us Law lords to rule on asbestosBy Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor(Filed: 13/03/2006) Families of workers killed by the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma will be waiting anxiously for the outcome of the latest test case to be heard by the law lords today.

Insurers acting for the French-owned drainage supplier Saint Gobain Pipelines are challenging damages of £152,000 they were ordered to pay to Sylvia Barker, whose husband, Vernon, died in 1996 aged 57.

Mr Barker was exposed to asbestos dust when he worked for most of the 1960s at the Shotton steelworks in Deeside, for whose liabilities Saint Gobain is now responsible.

The former labourer had also been exposed to asbestos during a previous six-week job as a pipe-lagger and for a subsequent 20-year period as a self-employed plasterer.

The law lords held in May 2002 that a former employee suffering from mesothelioma, who had been exposed to significant amounts of asbestos dust by different employe...

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propertyguide jobsguide autoguide farmonline Goulburn Post Monday, 13 March 2006 Welcome to goulburn yourguide News Local Sport Editorial Search Weather Marketplace Classifieds Real Estate Jobs Autos Community Your Say Events Club Pages Entertainment Local Links Contact Us Subscribe Advertise All | General News OPEN ACCESS: Nearby residents had not been formally notified of the asbestos find or any impending clean-up action on Friday morning, nor was there any signage posted around the site to indicate that broken asbestos had been found.

In addition, the rear fence had been broken in several places through demolition work and tree felling.

Crews move in: Supertex asbestos found in seven locations: experts By LOUISE THROWER Monday, 13 March 2006 A SPECIALIST crew will begin cleaning up the former Supertex site this week after environmental consultants identified seven small areas containing asbestos.

Supertex's owner Peter Felemegas commissioned the report by Sydney-based Airsafe Occupational Health consultants last week under instruction from WorkCover.

The authority's inspectors issued a prohibition notice to Mr Felemegas on Wednesday after finding broken asbestos mixed with rubble on the site, in breach of regulations WorkCover laws require the material to be kept in tact, separated from other ma...