Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Passive Smoker To Make Legal History
A nurse is due to make legal history by suing her employers over damage to
her health that she claims was caused by passive smoking.
Chronic asthma sufferer Sylvia Sparrow, 60, blames her condition on the
smoke she says she inhaled while caring for elderly patients at a nursing
home in 1986.
Mrs Sparrow, from Swinton, Greater Manchester, who has been off work sick
since February 1992, is suing St Andrew's Homes for injury, loss of earnings
and not being able to continue in the job.
Her case, to be heard at the High Court in Manchester, is based on claims
that she worked in the communal lounge at the Worsley Lodge home, which was
used by heavy smokers among the elderly patients.
It will be the first time that such a claim for damages has come before the
courts in England and Wales. Lawyers and employers will be watching the
outcome, which it is claimed could open the way for thousands of similar
claims and have far-reaching effects on employment legislation.
A council worker in Stockport, Greater Manchester, Veronica Bland, made
legal history when she won an out-of-court settlement of 15,000 in a case
brought against her employers.
A judge in Scotland last year rejected another case, ruling there was a lack
of evidence.
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