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Deliberate deception on asbestos caused needless deaths
Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum chair JOANNE GORDON explains how newly released court papers have revealed that asbestos-maker Cape withheld information on material’s risks and interfered with government regulation in the ’60s and ’70s
Asbestos justice campaigners at the court

CAPE Intermediate Holdings Limited is being asked to pay £10 million for medical research to fund a cure for mesothelioma following shocking revelations that Cape knew more about the dangers of asbestos than was previously thought.  

The demand is being made by the Asbestos Victims Support Groups’ Forum UK following its landmark battle saving the historic documents from destruction and which the forum believes will be vitally important in future asbestos compensation cases.  

The documents were obtained, after the forum commenced court proceedings against Cape following the 2017 case of Concept 70 Limited (employers/insurers) v Cape Intermediate Holdings Limited (Cape — a manufacturer of asbestos goods).  

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