HASAG - Asbestos Disease Support

Here for you at this difficult time.

HASAG Asbestos Disease Support understands how important it is to continue supporting people and their families affected by asbestos-related diseases during this pandemic. For the safety of our patients, their families and our team, our coffee mornings are cancelled until further notice. However, we are running monthly Zoom coffee mornings and we have a Virtual Coffee Morning group on Facebook. Please get in touch if you are interested. We are visiting patients in their homes if they are comfortable with this. We are wearing masks and socially distancing as well as carrying sanitiser and using it regularly. As well as this, we are offering telephone or zoom appointments as an alternative. We are still in the office and available Monday-Friday 9am-5:30pm via telephone or email. Alternatively you can get in touch with us via social media Monday-Sunday and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Please know that HASAG’s support is still here for you.

Team HASAG.

02380 010 015 / 02380 010 016
HASAG - Asbestos Disease Support
  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Our Story
    • Asbestos Related Diseases
  • Support
    • Counselling Service
    • Mesothelioma Patient Charter
    • Legal Help
    • Financial Help
    • The Armed Forces Project
    • Benefits
    • Nurses’ Funding
    • Testimonials
    • Events
    • Photo Galleries
    • Fundraising
    • Coffee Mornings – Asbestos Support Groups
    • Downloads & Resources
  • News
  • Shop
    • My account
    • Basket
  • Contact
  • Donate

A Great Victory for David over Goliath

Feb 22nd, 2018

The recent victory for the Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum led by Graham Dring (Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group) in its intervention for non-party disclosure of relevant documents held by Cape Intermediate Holdings, proves that there is still hope for justice against those who have profited from the sufferings of others.

The case of Dring-v-Cape Intermediate and Others is such a poignant one. Cape, which has been a worldwide producer of Asbestos containing materials since it was founded in 1893 has over many decades manufactured and supplied thousands of asbestos-containing products to retailers and other outlets, knowing that their products can cause significant progressive respiratory illnesses, such as asbestosis and fatal ones such as mesothelioma and Lung cancer. Many thousands of workers have been engaged in the production of such materials and have been directly exposed causing illnesses not just to themselves but also their loved ones, as they brought home Asbestos contaminated overalls to be washed by their spouses and whilst playing with their children. Generations of families have therefore been affected and their lives destroyed.

Graham Dring of the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group brought an application in the High Court to prevent Cape destroying documents concerning its knowledge of the harm that can be caused by its asbestos containing products in the 1960s and 1970s, which were deployed in a separate action brought against Cape for a contribution for damages in a mesothelioma claim. Cape resisted the application and contended that it was a private matter and not one open to the public.
With the support of the Forum, representations were made to the court as to why those documents should be preserved for future reference in other cases to be brought against Cape and in its many subsidiary companies. The court agreed that it was in the interests of justice to do so and ordered that those documents should not be destroyed but made available for inspection.

This is an illustration of how the determination of one group and its members can defeat the might of a conglomerate and is truly a story of David overcoming Goliath in its quest for justice and fairness.

Contact Us

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, you are not alone. Call us on: 02380 010 016 / 02380 010 015 or use our Contact Form. You can also follow us on Twitter.

  • Fundraising

  • Support

  • Resources

  • Coffee Mornings

  • Contact Us

Share this article

You may also like...

  • Feb 1st, 2018

    Bereavement Damages

  • Mar 14th, 2018

    Ashford Town FC

View All News

Sign-Up to our Newsletter

* indicates required
HASAG - Asbestos Disease Support
  • The June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund
  • Mesothelioma Alliance
©HASAG 2021 Charity Reg No. 1122105 Privacy Policy | Pixels & Things