APIL Guide to Noise Claims

Author: Chris Fry; Theo Huckle QC
Publisher: Jordan Publishing
ISBN: 9781846619281
Published In: April 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The APIL Guide to Noise Claims is an essential reference guide for claimant lawyers engaged in industrial deafness work.

The guide follows a case study through the entire claim process starting with the initial ‘triage’ risk assessment, through claim intimation and the pre-action protocol, the collection of lay witness evidence, expert medical and acoustic engineering evidence to completion.

In addition to a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory framework, the guide explains how to analyse audiograms against the Coles, Lutman & Buffin ‘Guidelines on the Diagnosis of Noise Induced Hearing Loss for Medico-Legal Purposes’, and how to work out noise immission levels saving substantial time and expense in utilising experts and improving risk management. There are several precedents including a Letter of Claim, Pre-Action Disclosure Applications and Pleadings.
- Breach of Duty – Commentary on the Evolution of the Regulatory Framework on Noise
- Engineering Evidence – How to Measure Noise at Work, How to Work out Noise Immission levels, and the Attenuation of Noise by Hearing Protectors
- Limitation
- Medical Diagnosis
- Quantum
- Dealing with a Deafness Enquiry
- Managing claims in the Employers’ Liability Portal
- Precedents
Chris Fry is the solicitor responsible for creating and managing Unity Law. He and the firm have won numerous industry awards. He has been a Fellow of APIL since 2006. In 2013 he was ‘highly commended’ as Solicitor of the Year at the national Law Society Excellence Awards. He is a retired Trustee for the British Tinnitus Association and is author of APIL Guide to Noise Claims and co-authored APIL Guide to Occupational Illness Claims (both Jordans).

Chris’s overwhelming wish to make a difference to the lives of those he helps has resulted in him undertaking some exceptional and ground breaking legal work and initiatives.

He has successfully completed a number of group actions for Claimants with noise damage and was lead Solicitor for the Claimants in the Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Deafness Litigation which was brought on behalf of over 3,000 claimants and is the only deafness case to have reached the Supreme Court.