Freeclaim Solicitors News
More radiation cases at Manchester University
Mon 26th Jan 09 - 12:15
This year, Freeclaim Solicitors (formerly Tranters Freeclaim Solicitors) are working on a number of high profile poisoning/contamination cases arising out of possible health hazards in Manchester University's Rutherford Building, which have attracted the attention of the news media.
The radiation scares are linked to the Rutherford Building at Manchester University, where at the turn of the twentieth century, Nobel-Prize winner Rutherford carried out experiments in the building concerned, leaving behind contamination which may have affected the health of those who later moved into the offices within the very laboratories where the experiments were carried out.
Two of the academics in the rooms have already tragically died of pancreatic cancer, and a third former employee is in the final stages. Pancreatic cancer is rare; approximately 9.9 people in 100,000 die of it. The incidence in the affected rooms now approaches 40%. There are numerous others who have died of other cancers. There is a very real concern for the welfare of any other occupants.
Freeclaim Solicitor Liz Graham is at the forefront of the campaign and representing clients and their families in these very serious contamination cases. A substantial amount of work on behalf of her clients was conducted pro bono earlier this year, and through great persistence, Liz Graham has now uncovered additional issues relating to mercury poisoning to further strengthen the evidence and the case against Manchester University. The scope of these cases has thus dramatically widened and has raised fundamental issues of failure of risk management over many years.